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 (04-18-2019, 11:20 AM)Luipaard Wrote: This is from a very knowledgeable person from another forum. I fully agree with this: What about Los llanos, are those primarily cattle killers too? Panatanl Jaguar prey on Caiman as their primary source but they prey on capybara, peccaries, otters, snakes and many others. You have a whole thread of jaguar predation from the pantanal and not one of them is a Jag preying on cattle there. In reserve/cattle farm in west Brazil, Jaguars and Puma contributed to 32 cattle killings in a year and the cattle killings were almost all calves and the individual were ones pushed to the outskirts where their territories overlapped. Here you can see the same study over a course of 4-5 years https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cat...fJQ1lheoMJ Once a Jaguar becomes a problem individual, it becomes public enemy number one and it's usually poisoned or hunted down, you of course see this in Belize, the Amazon, Caatinga and Bolivia as well, infact you see this almost anywhere cattle and Jaguars cross path's but even so the pantanal and Los llanos consistantly produce the largest individuals so I think they'll have to keep looking for a better reason for that. |
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