Since 2010, three female ocelots -- Milagre, Ayla and Revy -- produced using CREW’s artificial insemination techniques have all gone on to naturally breed and give birth to kittens of their own.

South Texas is the one place in the U.S. where ocelots breed in the wild. After the death of a male, scientists tried something novel: artificial insemination from a wild ocelot into one at a zoo.

First, they don’t breed in large numbers. Ocelot females normally have just one kitten per litter, sometimes two.

Local News New ocelot breeding program to begin in Kingsville thanks to $14M in grants The Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will be running the facility.

Texas is home to the last populations of the U.S. ocelot, with fewer than 100 breeding ocelots now living in a very small part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife ...