(24 Dec 2022)
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Medellin - 23 December 2022
1. Various of albino ocelot seen through enclosure window
2. Wide of enclosure
3. Various of ocelot sleeping in enclosure
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge Aubad, Director of Medellin Conservation Park:
"She arrived at the Conservation Park where she has been all this year. She has recovered from multiple health difficulties. It is a blind individual that can't be in its natural habitat. After several studies it has been confirmed that the species is a leopardus pardalis, meaning an ocelot. It is the third largest feline we have in Colombia after the jaguar and the puma. So far this is the first known case in the world of an albino leopardus pardalis, an ocelot.
5. Various of ocelot in its enclosure
6. Person taking photo
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dadiana Patiño, visitor at Conservation Park:
"For us we are proud to have this feline in Medellin, the only registered in the world. Really, thanks very much to the park for having rehabilitated her which allows us to come here and see her."
8. Various of signs and ocelot in enclosure
STORYLINE:
Colombia confirmed the first case of an albino ocelot of which there is information, after carrying out genetic tests on a feline with white fur and red eyes that remains under protection in the northwest of the country.
The ocelot was found as a cub, weighing 440 grams, in the rural zone of Amalfi and was first thought to be a puma jaguarundi.
The Conservation Park in Medellin undertook genetic testing on the animal, concluding it was actually a leopardus pardalis, a native species of ocelot which is found all across the Americas.
"So far this is the first known case in the world of an albino leopardus pardalis, an ocelot," Jorge Aubad, the director of the Medellin Conservation Park, said.
The feline was suffering from multiple ailments and had undergone lots of treatment over the past year, Aubad said.
He added that being blind and incapable of camouflaging the ocelot was unfit to live in its natural habitat.
Park authorities consider the animal to now be a healthy adult weighing 12.8 kilos (28.8 pounds).
The ocelot is on a diet of 700 grams of red meat and chicken, living in an adapted enclosure with small ponds to protect her from drowning.
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