Ocelot and Opossum Identified as Unlikely Friends After Footage Shows Them Strolling About Together

Videos capture an unlikely alliance between ocelots and opossums in the Amazon

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the Peruvian Amazon, a series of curious encounters has left biologists scratching their heads. Camera traps have captured an unexpected partnership: solitary, nocturnal ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) strolling alongside common opossums (Didelphis marsupialis). Not once, but four times, […]

Ocelot and Opossum Identified as Unlikely Friends After Footage Shows Them Strolling About Together

What happened when a wildcat and a small mammal met in the park? Dinner! This joke isn’t only terrible, it’s actually wrong. Scientists camera trapping in the Amazon revealed an extraordinary behavioral trend between a wildcat species called the ocelot and an opossum. Multiple video clips showed the two animals walking about “like old friends” […] The post Ocelot and Opossum Identified as Unlikely Friends After Footage Shows Them Strolling About…