Jaguars of Brazil - Dynamics,Lifestyle,Datas,Studies,Reports

[Balam]

@Dark Jaguar there is however a possibility that jaguars in Los Llanos used to predate of feral horse and cattle a few centuries ago. I have read quite a lot on the history of the mass ranching in the area, and before it was established as the main source of income, horses had been introduced by Spanish settlers who later abandoned them at least 500 years ago, this created a large populations of at least 300,000 wild horses in Venezuela alone, estimated. I wonder if during that time predation on horses was common among jaguars as there weren't ranchers to kill them for it or keep the horses housed in closed areas. And if that is the case, I wonder the sizes those jaguars could've achieved during that period of time where they had access to large and plentiful ungulate prey without limitations.

Jaguars from los Llanos started getting mass hunted about two centuries ago and that must've had a toll on the health of the population, but right before that, their morphology and ecology as it relates to their hunting pattern of introduced large feral ungulates is a mystery. Reply