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'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera
- darknavi 2y agoNo video of the trail cam in the article? Edit: Found it here https://youtu.be/ZkkMhLq0cm0?t=18 https://youtu.be/ZkkMhLq0cm0?t=18
- shiroiushi 2y agoYou simply can't even expect any useful photos in modern journalism, much less links to video.
- __jonas 2y agoIt's crazy to me as well, but I suppose this might be a case of the rights to this video being sold exclusively to CBS or something?
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y agoIt's annoying, but it looks like the original story came from The Charlotte Observer and was distributed through Tribune Content Agency, a syndication agency. That probably limits the embeds in the story. You also need to get permission to show the video (at least reputable sources will seek permission from the original creator). Phys.org might not be contractually or logistically able to get those permissions and add the video to the page.
- shiroiushi 2y agoIn this case, perhaps. But what I'm complaining about is much more broad than that: what I see so often in modern "journalism" is they'll spew a bunch of words about something, but photographs of whatever they're referring to are conspicuously absent, or there's not nearly enough to properly supplement the commentary. It shouldn't be hard to take a handful of decent photos and attach them to the article, but for some reason, many articles I see lately just don't have the number of photographs that seem justified. It's even worse these days when you consider the zero-cost of photography. 50+ years ago it made sense for there to be few, if any, photographs: they were expensive to take (film, developing), and operating a camera took some training and skill (you needed a proper 35mm camera for print-quality photos, and a manual SLR isn't something any idiot knows how to use effectively). Now, any smartphone will take thousands of photos, and any idiot can take photos good enough to be printed, so there's really no excuse. And printing costs are zero too: I'm guessing it cost extra money to print photos 50+ years ago in magazines and newspapers, but now it's all digital so there's no incremental cost to include more photos. And that's just photos. Video is pretty easy and free too, now that we have YouTube.
- tomcam 2y agoMargins in journalism are so compressed in the USA that very few of your expectations can be met. Only heavy advertisers like pharma, autos, etc can expect semi-decent coverage
- rfwhyte 2y agoNo, it's more that the so called "Journalists" have directives from their editors and corporate overlords to never link to any external content that might see people who could be reading the article and thus served ads leave the site. It's purely profit motivated, and results in long winded articles describing a video where just simply watching the video itself would be infinitely more useful / informative.
- aqfamnzc 2y agoIt's because if they include the prize, people will spend more time reading the article.
- bparsons 2y agoIt blows my mind the number of articles written about a specific photo or video, without embedding or linking to said media.
- Modified3019 2y agoThe rare species is an ocelot.
- flybrand 2y agothank you
- mtillman 2y agoThey called it a “new ocelot” in the article which confused me. Annoyingly buried in the article. Also, anyone else immediately scream Babou! in their head?
- mau013 2y agoYep yep yep Also did you know that the origin of that joke is that Salvador Dalí had a pet ocelot named Babou which he apparently took on his travels!! (Funny enough I just found that out this last weekend haha)
- Someone 2y ago> which he apparently took on his travels!! He definitely did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babou_(ocelot) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babou_(ocelot): “In the 1960s, Babou was frequently seen with Dalí, who claimed to have been given the wild ocelot by the head of state of Colombia. Dalí had always been a cat lover and had an interest in exotic animals. He enjoyed a visual pun and would sometimes wear a cat pattern or coloured coat when travelling with Babou. In 1969, he was photographed leaving a Paris metro station with an anteater on a lead. For a time in the 1960s, Dalí was more often than not accompanied by Babou. In a restaurant in Manhattan, although Babou's leash was tethered to the table, a fellow diner became quite alarmed until Dalí assured her that Babou was an ordinary cat “painted over in an op art design." On another occasion, when Babou and Dalí were visiting a gallery in Paris, Babou "made a nuisance" on some valuable 17th-century lithographs. Dalí claimed that the connection with him could only increase their value and the dealer increased the price of the lithographs by 50%. Dalí also agreed to sell the dealer a batch of his lithographs to placate him. In 1970, Robert Wernick reported in Life magazine that Babou had a younger companion named Bouba who were led into the hotel Meurice on a leash by one of Dali's assistants and made sick by the hotel's revolving doors. The Meurice was a luxury hotel in Paris since 1815, where Dalí was a regular guest for 30 years in its best known suite, the Royal Suite, which had been home to King Alfonso XIII during his exile from Spain. Writing in his memoirs, the actor Carlos Lozano (a friend of Dalí) stated, “I only saw the ocelot smile once, the day it escaped and sent the guests at the Meurice scurrying like rats for cover.” Babou also accompanied Dalí on a transatlantic crossing on the SS France.”*
- adriand 2y agoWild animals are so amazing, and this is a wild animal that seems to me to be extra-amazing. Think about the skills required to survive in this environment. No tools! No GPS coordinates for the nearest water source. No grocery store: anything it wants to eat is as wily and tough as it is. And it’s so stealthy and elusive that we’d never see it without the use of high-tech infrared cameras. This creature is a real world superhero character.
- trhway 2y ago> Think about the skills required to survive in this environment. yes, that level of skills makes a scorpion just a delicious snack for the fennec (desert fox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISsA591ApQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISsA591ApQM
- pests 2y agoI joke, but its stuff like this that makes the existence of bigfoot / etc possible. Take this ocelot and give him better limbs, more intelligence, and a desire / need / instinct to avoid humans at all costs. I could see some animal / creature being so good at avoiding humans that we have never seen them but yet they are all around.
- bamboozled 2y agoIf it had more intelligence than a gorilla , wouldn’t it be somewhat like us ? Why would it want to hide in the forest ?
- fooker 2y agoBecause homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years. Survival of the fittest ensures that if some species survived, they have to be specialized in avoiding humans.
- pests 2y ago> they have to be specialized in avoiding humans Exactly. What I find even more crazy is how other species of Homo were around until just 30,000 years ago and maybe as recently as 12,000. I find a lot of people have the perception that it was a much longer time but it could be as recent as the building of Gobekli Tepe.
- ackbar03 2y agoThese stories seem to be pretty common, where some species thought to be extinct suddenly shows up somewhere. Nature seems to usually find a way. That's a beautiful cat.
- mayneack 2y agoI don't think it was thought to be extinct, just no longer present in AZ.
- Miraltar 2y agoIt's not even in AZ but in some part of AZ
- MrVandemar 2y agoWhen a species thought to be extinct suddenly shows up somewhere, it usually means that the species is functionally extinct anyway, it's just a matter of time.
- tedchs 2y agoThey say this is the first time an ocelot has been spotted in 50 years, but I beg to differ. An ocelot is /always/ spotted.
- DaoVeles 2y ago* Flips table! * I love it!!!
- throwup238 2y agoNot always. Albino ocelots don’t have spots. </nitpick of doom>
- catoc 2y agoyeah, but you don’t spot albino’celot </I’ll show myself out>
- vasco 2y agoThey also say 50 years in the title and <=10 years later: "In the past decade, another ocelot, named Lil' Jefe, has been spotted roaming in the state, the Arizona Republic reported"
- spiderfarmer 2y agoIt has been roaming spotted in the state.
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- IanCal 2y ago50 years since it was seen in the area > This was the first time an ocelot has been seen "in the Atascosa Highlands region in at least 50 years," the zoo said.
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoIt seems pretty safe to say there's a breeding population of them. It does make you wonder if the Tasmanian Tiger may yet be found to still be around, given the way more remote and easy-to-hide-in habitats where it may be expected to be found.
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- Log_out_ 2y agoOnwards to the papers to the trail to make penis pills.
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- shadowgovt 2y agoOne of the things I love about wildlife researchers is that so many of them seem to be driven by two parts science and one part the simple visceral pleasure of "I saw a cool cat today."
- iambateman 2y agoI like this, an ocelot!
- pvaldes 2y agoThe zoom at the end of the video is the interesting part. The body proportions discard an occicat. There are several species that could fit. Leopardus pardalis ocelote is the most probable, but we need to remind that Leopardus wiedii, the margay, has been registered in Texas. Without a size reference (Occelot is bigger) both are indistinguishable. This if we assume that is not a lost pet. Seems well feed and active, so probably not, but there are several South-American species more that could fit, like the Tigrillo Leopardus tigrinus. All are smaller than an occelot
- K2h 2y agoI live in an urban environment and one day when i got the lawn mower out of the shed felt some resistance. A regular 5hp gas powered push mower usually rolls ok but on this day it was stuck. After wrestling it out of the shed i started to turn it over to see what the hangup was and low and behold a small skunk walks out and strolls away. I was a little worried i was going to get sprayed, but also super excited about seing a skunk. It did not spray.