Monday, December 4, 2017

"Jaguars are generally solitary, and mostly just meet up to court and mate with the opposite sex".........."However, some socializing amongst noncourting individuals has been observed before"..........."And in the video seen in the link below(click to view), vivid and rare camera trap footage of such an event---- two males "Jags" strolling together in the PASO DEL ISTMO region of Nicaragua"................"It's likely the pair split apart not long after this footage was shot during Summer 2015, each cat in search of a new territory of their own"................ "The smallest territories occur in the forests of Belize with a territory of about 5 square miles (13 square kilometers)"............. "The largest territories occur in the grasslands (Cerrado) of central Brazil with a territory of about 102 square miles (265 square kilometers)"................ "Male jaguars typically have territories twice as large as females"............... "A male jaguar’s territory can encompass the territories of several females"............ "The jaguar occurs in density of approximately 1 to 7 adult individuals per 39 square miles (100 square kilometers)."................"Females generally avoid each other, despite possessing overlapping territories"......... "Male territories don’t overlap, and are fiercely defended"............ "Territories are typically marked out with scratch marks, urine, and feces"

CLICK BELOW LINK TO WATCH TWO JUVENILE MALE JAGUARS WALKING TOGETHER

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/in-the-field/in-the-field/jaguar-duo-caught-on-camera-in-nicaragua

Jaguar duo caught on camera in Nicaragua

Jaguar duo caught on camera in Nicaragua
BY Jason Goldman FEBRUARY 04 2015




















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.


Still, before the jaguars left the Paso del Itmo area, Miguel and his colleagues managed to catch this incredibly rare camera trap footage. It shows two sub-adult male siblings walking together. It's likely the pair split apart not long after this footage was shot last summer, each cat in search of a new territory. 

"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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