We all know that with the continuous improvement of the continental ecosystem, the news of rare animals being found is also increasing, and some relatively large numbers of wild animals have also appeared flooding, such as wild boars, hares, pheasants, sparrows, etc. that we are familiar with in the past, and there is indeed a flooding trend in some places, so not long ago, the relevant departments also issued a notice to the society to ask whether to remove wild boars from the "three haves" animal list, and it has to be said that these are important achievements in the improvement of the mainland ecology and wildlife protection.
For a large number of wild animals, generally we are familiar with, such as pheasants, hares, these, generally as long as there is a distribution of places, more or less have seen some, so many people are aware, but some rare animals have begun to appear, but also easy to confuse with some common animals, if you accidentally get it wrong, you may also be harmful or sell wild animals and break the law.
Speaking of cats, I believe that each of us is not unfamiliar, because there are many types and sizes of cats, so that even rural people may not fully know cats, and there are many valuable species of cats.
Many friends may not know that there is an animal in the wild animal that is very similar to a cat, if it is not a professional person, it may not be recognizable, this cat is an ocelot, and according to media reports, some people have recently been criminally detained for endangering ocelots. So what is the difference between an ocelot and an ordinary cat?
Characteristics of an ocelot
In fact, from the name we can already see that this is an animal with the characteristics of a leopard and a cat. Indeed, the ocelot combines the characteristics of the leopard and the cat, and from the appearance, we all know that the leopard has obvious markings on the body, that is, the appearance of the coat color, the appearance of the leopard coat color.
In terms of size, the weight of the ocelot is generally 1.5 to 5 kg, which is actually equivalent to the weight of the domestic cat we are familiar with, so if it is not a professional person, it may also treat the ocelot as a kind of domestic cat.
Compared with domestic cats, ocelots generally do not move in places where humans live, and our familiar domestic cats generally move in places where humans live, and many domestic cats are not sensitive, and humans get along harmoniously, ocelots mainly live in mountain woodlands, generally live in tree holes or mud caves and stone caves, have the flexible climbing ability of domestic cats, and are also good at swimming, and their feeding habits are actually similar to those of domestic cats.
In addition to catching rodents, frogs, and hares, ocelots sometimes go to places where humans live to catch poultry such as chickens and ducks to eat.
Two men were detained for endangering an ocelot
We all know that due to the over-hunting and ecological destruction of many wild animals in the past, the number of wild animals has been greatly reduced, and the ocelot has disappeared from many places, and the ocelot would have been active in the marginal area of human habitation, resulting in the appearance of the ocelot, it is relatively easy to be found.
According to Tianyan News reported on January 19, Hezhang of Guizhou Province cracked a case of endangering rare and endangered wild animals, and two men were criminally detained, and the animal mentioned here was the leopard cat.
According to the media, some people reported that someone on the Internet released information on the sale of wild animal ocelots through social software, and then the relevant local departments conducted an investigation, and after identification, it was found that the animals to be sold were ocelots, national second-level key protected animals.
According to the two men, one of the men recently found the footprints of the ocelot around the village, so he asked another man to track it, and then took the Internet pocket to find the ocelot's cave, and after catching the ocelot, he hung the ocelot on the tree to take pictures, and released the sale information on the Internet.
It is worth mentioning that after being summoned, the two men did not know that their behavior had violated the law, and after the staff's education and science popularization, the two men realized that their behavior had violated the Wildlife Protection Law.
Rural people should pay attention
With the restoration of the ecosystem, wild animals are now abundant, but in fact, the most common place is still the countryside. Although the Wildlife Protection Law has always existed, in the past some animals have not been listed, or even if they were listed, the protection was not strict, resulting in a large number of people hunting illegally, and these people, the most rural people.
In fact, for a long time, many rural people in many places no longer hunt wild animals, not that they know that it is to protect animals, but they can no longer find it, if some wild animals begin to appear, many people in remote areas still have the idea that they can catch wild animals at will in the past, hunting at will, and do not want to be in the past era.
Just like the two men we mentioned above, if they know that their behavior may be illegal, they naturally will not do it, so our friends living in the countryside must pay attention, the protection of wild animals is the responsibility of each of us, if you see wild animals that you do not know, or protected wild animals, you must not endanger, but also do a good job of publicity, ecological restoration is not easy to come by, only we fear nature, we can survive in this green land forever.