Jaguar Directory

[Balam]

Today is February 2nd, World Wetland Day. The day before yesterday I arrived from the largest floodplain on the planet: the Pantanal, the “home of the jaguars”. In the rainy season it is not easy to find them, but, in addition to Daring, I had the privilege of reviewing Tusk or Angry (there are two catalogs in the region and we are talking to everyone involved to unify). 

I personally don't like the idea of using human adjectives to name jaguars, I find it limiting. The Angry One in this photo looks more like “Sweetie”. Calling a jaguar Medrosa is even an offense (after all, she's afraid of what, isn't she?). BUT the idea of unifying the catalog assumes that the person who takes the first photo of an unidentified jaguar has the right to name it: be it Curioso, Peter Schmidt or Juru (real names of jaguars already cataloged). The important thing is that everyone participates and provides information and images to researchers! 

*This image is copyright of its original author

---

By Lawrence Wahba Reply