Jaguar Predation

[johnny rex]

(05-26-2020, 03:27 PM)OncaAtrox Wrote:

(05-26-2020, 09:53 AM)johnny rex Wrote:

(05-14-2020, 06:27 AM)OncaAtrox Wrote: "previously unseen image from my archives that I have discovered in the last few days during lockdown. This predation was by far the most dramatic battle I have photographed and featured a gigantic caiman. The jaguar was quite small and struggled for a long time to subdue the jacare, giving me plenty of opportunity to take pictures. I shot this quite tight with a 1.4x extender attached to my 400mm which gives a good example of the size differential between the two animals. I can’t think of any other big cat vs large prey interaction that is as exotic, dramatic or ferocious as a jaguar taking down a large caiman in an alien, aquatic setting. What do you think?? Does anything else compare??

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The jaguar yet again proving to be the only felid that successfully preys on crocodilians as larger or larger than itself on a regular basis.

The yacare caiman looks much bigger because that's a female jaguar. Compared to male jaguars, the size difference isn't that great.

So? A female jaguar killed a Yacare probability larger than herself, still a jaguar killing a crocodilian larger than itself. Who said anything about the jaguar having to be a male?

Just wanna say the verified (e.g. there were already too many video demonstrations of jaguars killing jacare caimans) size of largest caiman that had been killed by jaguars is around 9-10 feet long which is a good size prey for jags. Reply