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

[Dark Jaguar]

(11-01-2020, 03:19 AM)Balam Wrote: @Dark Jaguar check the intraspecific conflicts thread, i posted two videos of the interaction. Overall I second everything you said.
The two siblings are only 15 months in age, probably just gained independence from their mother, Susanna female.

The dynamics involving the formation of coalitions by jaguars is extremely interesting and understudied. Jaguars remain, alongside snow leopards, the most understudied of the felids within the genus Panthera and interactions like this just keep showing how much we still have to know about them.

@Balam I didn't know about the videos thanks for letting me know.

Now that I saw the 2 videos and despite them being too short I see that Edno is clearly the one that is messing around with both over there, Edno is the confident cat on that situation, the siblings seems way more anxious and concerned about Edno's presence than otherwise, all the siblings can do is to get defensive and Edno is the one approaching them and pushing the fight and he is always the one striking and smacking them first whereas the siblings don't have another choice but to fight back the big male. Also as Edno calms down and stops a little bit with the aggressions you can see the whole enviornment also calms down since Edno is the trouble maker of that interaction and is the one starting the whole conflict over the defensive youngsters.

I think we cannot get into deep conclusions out of very few cut off seconds of video interactions and since it was said Edno got chased its surprising and interesting but I still don't think he was going all out on that interaction and by that outcome I can rule out the possibility of his mating intentions over the young female because if that was the case, the outcome of that encounter could've been way more intense.

Thats how I interpreted that situation in those short videos.

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