Crossword clues for margay
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Margay \Mar"gay\, margay cat \margay cat\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small American wild cat ( Felis wiedi syn. Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.
Wiktionary
n. ''Leopardus wiedii'', a spotted cat native to Central America and South America..
WordNet
n. small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil [syn: margay cat, Felis wiedi]
Wikipedia
The margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a small cat native to Central and South America that is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN since 2008 because remaining populations are thought to be declining due to loss of habitat following conversion of forests.
In his first description, Schinz named the margay Felis wiedii in honour of Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied who collected specimens in Brazil.
The margay is a solitary and nocturnal cat. It lives foremost in primary evergreen and deciduous forest. Until the 1990s margays were hunted illegally for the wildlife trade, which resulted in a large population decrease.
Usage examples of "margay".
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelots, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
Virtually all wild and exotic cats, including ocelot, margay, serval, cougar, and bobcat, can turn vicious as they age.
In those days, so long ago, a small child was still carried away every so often by a night-hunting puma, and even the beautiful ocelot and tiny margay appeared ferocious after nightfall.
While neither ocelot nor margay it was as indubitably feline as its presence was puzzling.
Behind him marched a pair of margays, but instead of the handsome, symmetrical faces common to their breed they displayed long upward curving fangs, piggish nostrils and greatly elongated ears that flopped over their foreheads like those of a basset hound.
When we can drop the magveils behind them and send the Red Storms and the margays, when we can destroy them utterly.
At this moment he was under arrest for killing jaguars, ocelots and margays and selling their spotted skins.
The Amazon's pretty little ocelots and still smaller margays face possible extinction--a threat hunters repeatedly level at jaguars, the top cats here.
They watched as busy stevedores, mostly broad-shouldered wolves, margays, and lynxes, laboriously loaded and unloaded stacks of crates and bales.