- Once roaming Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Arizona, fewer than 100 remain in the US, though their range stretches all the way to Argentina
--> December 2025: "Remote camera footage released during the last two weeks of the year showed two different endangered ocelots roaming the mountains of Southern Arizona, including an especially unusual sighting in the Santa Rita range south of Tucson." [Arizona Daily Star]
--> August 2024: Thanks to Kinley Ragan of the Phoenix Zoo and her wildlife camera, for the first time in at least 50 years, a rare and endangered was spotted in the Atascosa Highlands of southern Arizona near Nogales