Fast work allows dead ocelot to contribute genetically
Quick action by wildlife biologists and experts at the Gladys Porter Zoo salvaged genetic material from a 9-year-old ocelot that was killed by a vehicle near Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.
The traffic accident occurred several months ago, but active and motile sperm was collected from the dead male and has been frozen and will be used for artificial insemination of captive female ocelots.
The genetic material from the ocelot was salvaged by staff at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens and Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, or CREW.
“We knew that any chance of success depended on collecting the cat and getting the sample to the Cincinnati Zoo as absolutely fast as possible,” said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Hilary Swarts.
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