Impressive Wild Jaguars - Pictures and Videos

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(04-13-2018, 04:47 AM)Greatearth Wrote: Wolverine 
I don't encourage you to go Venezuela to see jaguar. It is very dangerous these days, and even biologists in Venezuela are not going outside to see animals. One of biology professor in my university. He is from Venezuela. He told me not to go visit Venezuela just like my Venezuela friend said to me. He told me story of VEnezuelan biologists are staying inside of home and city becuase many of them had experiences of robbing or met a gangs. The funniest story was the one of his friend, who is ornithologist. He (probably with other biologists along with him as well) was in field to check bird's nest, but he met group of middle school teenagers put guns on him or them. They were like "should we kill these guys? Nahh, polices can come after us since city is about 5 mins away. I don't want to clean up dead bodies after I shot them." That is the only reason why he came back alive, and him and others who were with him are not going field to see birds. I heard this is pretty normal in Venezuela unless if you are living in rich people area. You can live 1 year with 30~40 dollars in Venezeual today, even polices are trying to take money from you if you are foreigner. I hope Venezuela's situation would be better. I really want to go visit Angel fall, Los Llanos, Mount Roraima, and Orinoco Delta.
My professor said you can go visit Angel fall safely if you call guide, but it will be really expensive.


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Which place is better between Pantanal vs Los Llanos? 
I heard Los Llanos is way cheaper than the Pantal, not even half price, but it is equal of watching wildlife in Pantanal. You can see green anaconda and river dolphin in Los Llanos, while Pantanal don't have those animals. Pantanal is the best place to see jaguar and giant otter, but very expensive. And when is the dry and rainy seasons in Los Llanos? The Pantanal have a rainy season between December to March and a dry season is May to October. I think Los Llanos is opposite from Patanal. When is the best season to see wildlife in Los Llanos?

@Greatearth
Los Llanos is a lot cheaper than el Pantanal, you can stay in a few big ranches called Hatos and you pay from 100 to 120 dollars a day, they take you out to see the wildlife two times a day and give you your 3 meals. Pantanal is the paradise to see Jaguars but Venezuelan Llanos is the paradise to see Green Anacondas and yes you can see River Dolphins all year for sure because people in Venezuela don't hunt them. Los Llanos have the rainy season from mid May to October and the dry season the rest of the year with the peak of the season from January to April. Venezuelan Llanos are a lot like Pantanal but very small compared to el Pantanal. The best time of the year to see the wildlife in los Llanos is the dry season. Reply