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

[Dark Jaguar]

Onçafari

Year: 2014

Tracking.

After months of training in 2013, two professionals of the Onçafari Project put into practice the tracking techniques, taught by two trackersa Africans from the renowned South African Tracker Academy. The foreign professionals pointed out some difficulties that the Pantanal landscape offers, such as: the flood season, which makes it impossible to access different regions due to the high water level; some plants in the region, such as the bromeliad "caraguatá", which has hard and sharp thorns; the movement of large groups of cattle, which pass over fresh jaguar tracks and erase tracks; the high rate of ticks and mycuins especially in the dry season, among other difficulties absent in Africa. Anyway, the professionals of the Onçafari were well trained and used the techniques in a comprehensive way throughout the year, obtaining two sightings of jaguars, on foot, used this important tool.


Nego and Diogo looking for tracks.

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Fresh trails of a female Jaguar.

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The practice was also widely used to find photographic traps loaded by certain curious jaguars, which removed the equipment from the place of installation, carrying the equipment with mouths to the inside of the woods. Events like this happened several times during this year, and the main jaguars to perform such feat were Nusa, Troncha and Teorema. Without the practice of tracking these equipments would never be found and the data contained inside would be lost. Reply