Jaguar Predation

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(03-19-2018, 04:03 AM)brotherbear Wrote: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018...?beta=true 
 
https://purrandroar.com/2017/03/31/the-j...-anteater/ 
 

 
In the southern Pantanal in Brazil anteaters make a small portion of a jaguars prey about  3 percent, but in the Cerrado, in central Brazil anteaters make up about 75 percent of the cats diet. Encounters can be very dangerous and Carvalho says it’s safe to assume that a jaguar would only attack by surprise or from behind and, that what happened in this video is the result of a surprise run in between the two species. He thinks that the two likely took a look at one another and then decided it wasn’t worth it and moved on, but there is no way to know for sure.

"One study in 2010 found that giant anteater made up only 3.2 percent of jaguar prey in the Pantanal. But some jaguars – it seems – may be giant anteater specialists. A study in Brazil’s vast grasslands, known as the cerrado, actually found that an astounding 75 percent of jaguar prey was giant anteaters. Jaguars and giant anteaters actually share three ecosystems – the Amazon, the cerrado and the Pantanal – and how they interact may well depend on the habitat and other prey availability."

Jaguar predation attempt on a Giant Anteater
https://vimeo.com/108411348

Camera Trap footage of a Jaguar vs Anteater 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...rap-brazil
"Eyewitnesses, our guide insisted, had found the two foes dead together, embracing like lovers but in mutual destruction – the jaguar’s jaw still drooped around the anteater’s neck where it had pierced its prey’s artery and the anteater’s ten-centimeter-long claws still embedded in the big cat’s flanks."


Kill rates and predation patterns of jaguars in S. Pantanal 
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc...m_usdanwrc Reply