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

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Atlantic Forest Jaguar Predation.

credits: Yara Barros from Onças do Iguaçú Project

The Voice of the Jaguar May. 2020

Page 28 of the link: [url]https://issuu.com/yarabarros/docs/maio_20[/url]


note: I am gonna put the scientific names of the animals I don't know the names in english.

Base preys of Jaguars and Pumas.

In 1995 Peter Crawshaw conducted a study on the diet of Jaguar and Puma in the Iguaçú National Park and described the following species as potential prey for these cats: cateto (pecari tajacu), cutia (dasyprocta azarae), gambá (didelphis sp. ), paca (cuniculus paca), teiu (salvator merinae), mateiro deer (mazama americana) and bororó-deer (mazama nana). for our analysis we will use all records of deer (mazana sp.) and add the tapir (terrestrial tapitus) because we confirmed last year the predation of a tapir by our dear Tarobá male.

Among the potential prey species identified, the cutia (dasyprocta azarae) was the most registered (1130 registers) followed by the gambá (didelphis sp. ) with (785 registers) and by the deer (433 registers). The species with less records was the paca (cuniculus paca) with (2 records) and due to the low number of records it was taken out of the analysis. below is a graphic with all the species and the record number of each of them predated by jaguar and puma.

Cutia (dasyprocta azarae), Gambá (didelphis sp. ), Veado (Deer), Tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis),Cateto (pecari tajacu),Teiu (salvator merinae),Anta (Tapir), Quati (Nasua nasua)

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81kg Tarobá Atlantic Forest male.

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