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Arizona’s Last Ocelot Faces A Life in Isolation
Lil’ Jefe, the only known remaining member of its species in the state, is cut off from his kind by Trump’s border wall.
Francisco Martinezcuello
July 8, 2021
ON JANUARY 7, barely two weeks before the inauguration of Joe Biden and the day after the assault on the Capitol by his predecessors’ supporters, over 2,000 miles away, wildlife ecologist Dr.
Aletris Neils was scrolling through photos she’d retrieved from a trail camera in the Huachuca Mountains in southeastern Arizona.
Ecologists Aletris Neils and Chris Bugbee had little hope of a sighting, but at the end of the camera trap footage, a rare cat crept into focus.
At home in Tucson, she and her husband, Chris Bugbee, an experienced ecologist as well, grew increasingly anxious as she scrolled.
Their anxiety grew with each passing empty time-lapsed photo. Sometimes the wind would trigger the camera sensors, sometimes it was rain, most times it was nothing at all.
All they could see was just a branch, some rocks and stillness. Neils and Bugbee forced themselves not to think of the possibility of another victim of t