My new job. Ocelot, predatory cat. Ocelot is the third largest American cat after a jaguar and a puma. This graceful predator inhabits the greater part of South America (Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, etc.) and Central America, up to the American states of Arizona and Arkansas. Interspecific variability is present throughout the range, in view of which 10 subspecies of ocelot are allocated.