Jaguar Predation

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Daryl Balfour
Never recorded before? A jaguar mum & her cub pose briefly on to of the Piquiri River bank before melting into the jungle with the neotropical river otter (Lontra longicaudis) she has just killed in the river below.
According to every guide I spoke to in the Pantanal this has never been seen before, let alone captured photographically.
Thanks to the awesome spotting skills of my river guide @arrudabranco and partner in crime @christianbrunskill we captured the (brief) moments for posterity!
We put in long hard hours on the river over the past nine days, but with four different jaguar kills and plenty of other superb photo opportunities it was time well spent.
Join us on one of our future action-packed photo safaris for some of the very best action wildlife you will ever experience.
Nikon D850, AF-S NIKKOR 180-400mm f/4E TC1.4 FL ED VR.

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Chris Brunskill
On Wednesday morning on the Rio Piquiri I, alongside my good friend Daryl Balfour, managed to photograph a very rare event in the life of the jaguar. We were coming downriver around ten o’clock after visiting the Pousada Piquiri when my assistant Branco Arruda spotted a young jaguar cub high up on the riverbank. As we approached, he spotted a second cat in the shallows of the river, it was the cub’s mother who was in the process of dispatching a neotropical river otter. With the boat bobbing up and down on the choppy water, I shot three sharp images, with both jaguar and otter visible, of this as yet visually unrecorded piece of predatory behaviour.

Jaguar with Otter kill

Rio Piquiri, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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