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[Dark Jaguar]

Onçafari,

Month: November

Year: 2017

Pantanal


PREDATIONS

During this month, the Project team located 13 dead farm animals (10 cattle and 3 horses). Of these, only two were preyed by jaguars and another three were only consumed opportunistically. As mentioned earlier in the topic Sightings the sisters Isa and Fera shared a carcass of a cattle that died trapped in the wires of a fence. They took turns consuming the animal, but the difference between the feeding times of the two proves that they were together. In a single video you can see the two in the same image Fera passes in the background while Isa feeds.


Isa feeding on the carcass while her sister Fera passes by in the background. ( red circle )

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Natureza female also appeared in a carcass that she possibly slaughtered.  What draws attention in the images is the excess of abdominal tissue she presented suggesting an advanced stage of gestation or one that she gave birth recently.

Natureza female with excess of abdominal tissue.

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In another predated bovine, three jaguars appeared: Tchura female and her cubs of approximately 10 months of age named Siri and Emma, The first two were sighted by the team. Since Tchura female is a jaguar with few records and sightings it was not known that she had cubs

The same night, two other jaguars, Maria Bunita female (mother) and Pirilampo (cub) fed on a dead bovine for causes unrelated to predation. Both, which were only known as photographic traps, were also sighted by the team.

As for the predated wild animals, only four were found by the team three of which were caimans and an armadillo ( Dasypus novemcinctus ). It is not known which jaguars were responsible for the slaughters. Reply