Jaguar Predation

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(10-02-2017, 09:58 PM)Pckts Wrote: Dramatic moment a jaguar and a caiman fight to death captured in incredible pics
DRAMATIC picture show when a fearsome big cat wrestled with the reptile for around 20 minutes in a struggle witnessed by a wildlife photographer.
Paul Harper
The SunSeptember 29, 20176:42pm

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A jaguar ambushes a giant yacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo: Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty ImagesSourceetty Images

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THESE astonishing images capture the dramatic moment a jaguar and a caiman fought to death in a Brazilian jungle.
The fearsome big cat wrestled with the reptile for around 20 minutes in a struggle witnessed by wildlife photographer Chris Brunskill, reports The Sun.
This battle happened on Tuesday on the Three Brothers River in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Jaguars hunt the small to medium-sized crocodiles — but rarely is such a clash photographed.
Snapper Chris rushed to the area after he learned the majestic cat was spotted near Corixo de Camindo.

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The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle (Photo by Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty Images)Sourceetty Images
In a Facebook post, he wrote: “Over the next hour we followed the cat and watched at close range as she charged unsuccessfully on a small group of capybara.
“Moments later she was walking through an open stretch of water when she pounced on the biggest yacare caiman I have ever seen during all my time on the river in Pantanal.

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The death struggle was witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning (Photo by Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty Images)Sourceetty Images
“After a long struggle, she immobilised the giant reptile with the trademark jaguar bite to the back of the skull, and then dragged the huge carcass for over twenty minutes across an open beach into thick cover.
“During the struggle I shot an incredible variety of pictures, almost 50GB in total, of a predation (animal attack) sequence I have been obsessed with since I first visited this magical place over five years ago.”

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Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed. (Photo by Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty Images)Sourceetty Images
In July last year a 99 kilogram jaguar took down another caiman in the South American country.
Around 30 years ago, the caimans faced an even bigger threat due to a lucrative market for crocodile leather.
“Nobody can say for sure how many yacares were slaughtered, but it would have run well into the millions,” Cleber Alho, a Brazilian conservation biologist, told National Geographic.
After Brazil’s government cracked down on poaching and following a 1992 global ban on trading crocodile skins, the creatures flourished. Now as many as 10 million live in the wetlands.

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