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Jaguar duo caught on camera in Nicaragua
Jaguar duo caught on camera in Nicaragua
It's perhaps because of their fearsome reputation and powerful bite that jaguars aren't beloved throughout their range. They've been all but extirpated from the southwestern United States, with just one small breeding population left in Arizona. They also frequently come into conflict with ranchers in Central and South America – as habitat destruction leaves them in search of their typical prey, they've increasingly turned to livestock as a widely available source of nutrition.
AS A RULE TWO MALE JAGUARS WILL FIGHT IF THEY COME INTO CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER---EACH SEEKING TO CONTROL A STATED TERRITORY THAT ALL OTHERS AVOID
Miguel Ordeñana is a wildlife biologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and when he's not deploying camera traps to understand the urban carnivores of California, he's using camera traps to understand jaguars in Nicaragua together with an organisation called Paso Pacifico.
UPON OCCASION, TWO JUVENILE MALE JAGUARS WILL ROAM TOGETHER
UP TO THE POINT THAT THE URGE TO CLAIM A TERRITORY OF THEIR OWN
BECOMES A DRIVING NEED
Earlier this year some jaguars within his study area (a region containing four communities in the Paso del Istmo area, a small stretch of land between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean) were blamed for preying upon more than 40 horses in just six months. By the time Ordeñana and his colleagues could return to Nicaragua in an attempt to collar a few of the cats with GPS trackers, the animals seemed to have moved on.
"It seems like they moved onto Costa Rica because we have had reports of attacks just outside our study area across the border," Ordeñana says. "We also had reports of a jaguar that was shot and injured just before we arrived but we don't know if it's true … we hope not." In fact, this is why Ordeñana waited so long before allowing us to share this footage. The situation in the area was "pretty intense", he says, and he and his colleagues were afraid for the safety of the jaguars. If photos or video of the jaguars had been made publicly available, local ranchers might have been able to use them to seek out and kill the cats.
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