Jaguar Predation

[Jafar]

(02-10-2024, 01:52 AM)Ngonya Wrote:

(02-09-2024, 07:21 AM)Jafar Wrote: probably around 3 meters.

3 meters is too big for such a caiman. Skull morphology resembles more of a young black caiman
We can't even get along to its size by simple video, in which various tricks with unintentional angles can trick our perception.
in addition to the fact that if it was an adult male measuring 3 meters, it would be unlikely that it would be easily dominated, regardless of what is not possible to see in the video.

The proof that video angles cant be taken much into account are the footage of jaguars hunting Yacares in Pantanal. They look quite big even thought rarely are over 2,5 meters. Have seen footage of those smaller cousins of the caiman looking as long in width in other videos/photos
example:

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(02-09-2024, 07:21 AM)Jafar Wrote: before the Jaguar releases the alligator, the boat makes a very irritating noise and so, the Jaguar releases the alligator, and we can see that this was the reason she released him, since right when she releases the alligator, she looks straight to the boat, so the alligator takes advantage and defends itself and scares away the Jaguar, if it weren't for that, this alligator would have the same fate as the Alligator in the photo.

Well thats not really a great argument for the jag to ungrab the Caimans throat. 
The boat was making noise the whole time and that didnt stop the jaguar from doing its thing.
(its a male jaguar, so idk why ur using 'she'. U can see its testicles when its grabbing the caiman to surface) 

Its pretty common for them to ungrab the caimans after a short struggle in water, as u said there probably was some bit of a fight before they started recording it. It was in a pretty bad position bringing the caiman to surface, so not only the struggle to finish its prey but also to bring to the surface

It is possible to see that in that brief moment when the jaguar releases the Black, it immediately reacts and enters a good defensive position (lower and more vulnerable part facing the water and the jaws that can do damage aimed at the danger), which would make it difficult for the jaguar to dominate the animal once again.
However, i believe that a 'second round' could easily have occurred and the jaguar easily won, but perhaps when he pays attention to the humans without focusing on the caiman, he runs away.

and we can size the alligator according to this image.
The alligator's skull is almost the same size in relation to the Jaguar's height, which is no less than 70 cm.
which would give approximately 50 cm for the alligator's skull.

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