Man-Animal Interaction: Conflict & Coexistance

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Man attacked by jaguar is saved by 5 dogs in MS.

year: 2019

Brazil.

https://g1.globo.com/ms/mato-grosso-do-s...m-ms.ghtml

According to the firemen, the victim was to verify the origin of a bad smell in the woods when he was attacked by the jaguar which protected its kill. The ONG Panthera says that the jaguar protected the carcass and that the presence of dogs may have made it aggressive.

''A 58-year-old man was saved by 5 pet dogs when attacked by a jaguar on a farm in Porto Murtinho, 440 km away from Campo Grande.

According to the Fire Department, the attack was last Sunday 14th and the victim needed medical attention because of the injuries. According to the occurrence the man took a bite and a swipe of the animal in the back region, which caused several scratches.

According to what was reported by the man to the corporation, he went to verify the origin of a bad smell in a forest accompanied by his dogs. When he arrived at the site, he found that it was a dead animal and in that moment he was attacked by the jaguar. The dogs started the barkings which surprised the big cat then it ran away.

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According to Colonel Queiroz of the Environmental Military Police (PMA), on two other occasions, employees of a farm went to check the stench of animals and were attacked by jaguars as well, because especially the jaguar usually defends its food:

"It kills the prey, then keeps feeding on it and then it'll keep watching the carcass. This is one of the ways it can attack a human being, because the jaguar does not see an adult human as prey, it tends to move away but in order to defend its food or its youngs it can attack." he explains.

Leonardo Avelino, president of the non-governmental organization (ONG) Panthera explains that the jaguar may have interpreted the presence of the 5 dogs as a food "competition" for the hunt it protected: "Jaguars usually get aggressive with the proximity of dogs, the reason for the attack may have been precisely their presence." he says.

According to the firemen, the man was taken to the city hospital. He was attended and released the same day. '' Reply