Margays

By: Tina ElmlingerJanuary 25, 2007

Hi! I’m a Margay.

• Small cat• Yellow fur with dark rosettes • Long tail

What should I eat today?

Possum

Squirrel

Bird

So many choices!

Rat Monkey

Insects

I’m a Carnivore. How can you tell?

Who wants to hunt me?

• Man• Larger carnivores• The “mob”

At Home in the Rainforest

• Canopy Layer– Mexico– Peru– Paraguay– Argentina

I’m nocturnal!

• I’m nocturnal

Prehistoric times.

• U.S. citizen

Do You Remember?

1. What do I eat?2. Who are my predators?3. What layer of the rainforest do I live

in?4. What do you call animals that are

active at night?5. Can you remember a place I used to

live?

Works Cited• http://www.bigcatrescue.org/catfacts/

catfacts.htm• http://www.agarman.dial.pipex.com/margay.htm• http://www.tropenbos.nl/Kidzone/Images/Colombia%2

0-%20Margay%20cat.JPG• http://home.att.net/~larvaluebug/rainforest.jpg