Impressive Wild Jaguars - Pictures and Videos

[Dark Jaguar]

@Balam

As a recall of our conversation a few days back in the jags thread here are a few melanistic Atlantic Forest Jaguars I found seen by camera trap in the Alto Paraná region where there's an important forest corridor which links two big conservation units in Pontal do Paraná Panema.


I think that Unlike in Caatinga specially in Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara where there's a very high density of melanistic jags above the normal, the Melanism on Atlantic Forest jags I think are a bit more elusive these days due to jaguars of atlantic forest in Brazil live in very isolated areas from one another and on top of that with very little individuals in many of these areas and with high risks of disappearing. So the regular yellow jaguars are already elusive let alone the melanistic ones, but the dark genes are still carried by the population in the biome.


credits: Instituto Ipê

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Impressive Atlantic Forest Dark male.

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Melanistic and regular Yellow wild Atlantic Forest Jaguars together from Morro do Diabo State Park.

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I'm gonna take advantage and drop this big regular yellow atlantic forest male here too, he's from the same area and was captured I think by the team led by Laury Cullen Jr. in around 2017.

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by the way its quite strange tagging you as ''Balam'' now, I am sure that Balam ( the jaguar ) is happy about that     just like Xangô cerrado male on my profile pic   . Reply