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Brutus Broken Tail

Year: 2015

Liliam and Mario talk a bit about Brutus and what may have happened to him to lose part of his tail.

Mario: Tell us what are the news here.

Liliam: We got Brutus a resident male here at Fazenda Caiman since 2013 and we see him very often and he was always a healthy and robust jaguar hence why we call him Brutus. After a while a haven't seen him and around 3 months ago he showed up in one of our camera traps walking with the tip of his tail broken and we noticed the tissue wasn't being nourished anymore, it was already a dead tissue.

Brutus with the tip of his tail still hanging.

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Liliam: Then we thought what might've happened to him.

Mario: What do you think happened to him?

Liliam: We suggest it could be fights with other jaguar, he lost just the tip of the tail it might also have broken off with his own weight over his tail but its only suggestions as we were not there to see.

Mario: I think its something we'll never find out but on the other hand it made easier for us to identify him.

Liliam: Yeah and the good thing is that its a species that adapts really well because he still climbs trees very well, he is still mating he still acts naturally despite the missing part of his tail.

Mario: The cool thing is that we got photos of him with his full tail, with his tip tail hanging and now we got him with the broken tail.

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