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Jaguar Predation
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A female Jaguar killed a young cow. She dragged the carcass in the middle of the day to get it out of sight. She did not get it far enough away and within hours hundreds of Black Vultures had gathered. A message had been sent through the airwaves that a kill had been made and fresh meat was up for grabs.
The female is referred to by the Jaguar habituation team as Teorema. She was collared in April this year, allowing us to use GPS data to get an idea about her home range. We know so little about these majestic cats and a collar enables us to monitor many elements of an otherwise secretive existence. The radio telemetry beeped suggesting that Teorema was in the area. Darkness set in. We sat in the car about 50 yards away and waited… a patience game! Fifteen minutes later and there was movement at the kill. I shone the spotlight and was overjoyed to see a Jaguar tearing into the carcass. With one hand on the spotlight I focused the binoculars on the beautiful cat. No collar! I must being seeing wrong I thought. I looked again and sure enough there was a Jaguar, without a collar feeding on the kill. I reached for the telemetry and pointed the antennae at the carcass. It beeped on Teoremas frequency. I could hardly breathe. I gazed at the rosettes and managed to eventually read them like a thumbprint. It was a young female Jaguar known as Garoa, daughter of Chuva.  *This image is copyright of its original author Garoa, the young female without the collar, starts to feed on the carcass By now my heart was pounding. Two unrelated Jaguars were within meters of each other. Did Teorema know that her kill was being feasted on? The answer came that very instant. It was so fast that I had no time to reach for the camera. Teorema exploded out of the nearby bushes and stormed towards Garoa. Indescribable speed! I heard more than I saw. Loud, guttural aggressive snarling and hissing. Garoa had no chance. Much smaller and younger than her opponent her only option was to concede defeat. She did this quickly and spun around onto her back. Paws up in the air, belly exposed she played the submissive card. Teorema steamed from the mouth. Canines at the ready. But cats, by in large, don’t like physical confrontation. A few moments of growling were all that was needed. Teorema had won back her kill. She calmly turned around and walked back to the carcass where she fed… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctgyRlptro It does not end there. A nearby group of Peccary had been interested in the commotion and had sauntered close to the action. Garoa casually got up, brushed herself off and started stalking. She hunted and killed a large female Peccary within 100meters of where Teorema fed on her own prize. The sounds of that kill were insane. Squeals, grunts and cries pierced the still night. Teorema did not even stop to listen. She simply kept eating.  *This image is copyright of its original author Here you can see Teorema, a very large female Jaguar, feeding on the carcass Camera trap footage would tell us that about 2 hours later Teorema would leave the carcass and a mere 10 minutes later Garoa was seen feeding on the same cow! For some reason she had abandoned her own Peccary meat to return to Teorema’s beef. Hard to explain… What a treat to have witnessed this incredible aggression between two wild female Jaguars. Aggression: yet with a strange sense of acceptance towards each other. We continue to uncover more about the unknown lives of Jaguars. Feel free to ‘follow’ the blog, ‘like’ our Facebook site and ‘subscribe’ to our YouTube channel. Written, photographed and filmed by Adam Bannister
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I've posted this before, but it looks well into jags and their diet preferences.
Corazón with a javelina kill in 2012
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A jaguar captures a yellow anaconda in the Pantanal, the largest wetland in the world
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 *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Wild male Jaguar (Panthera onca palustris) predating a Capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) at the edge of a tributary of Cuiaba River, Northern Pantanal, Brazil. Copyright:© http://www.nickgarbutt.com Keywords: Archive, Brazil, Capybara, Cuiaba River, Felidae, Jaguar, Nick Garbutt, Pantanal, Panthera, South America, Super Stock, cat, elusive, endangered, feline, food, hunting, kill, landscape, meat-eater, powerful, predate, predator, spotted, swamp 
This looks a bit staged obviously, I think its a captive Jaguar by the way she doesn't even realize the danger of the buffalo let a lone the correct way to attack.
I'm not even sure where a Jaguar and Water buffalo would run in to each other in the wild, outside of captive buffalo in the US or Mexico. Female Jag vs Water Buffalo 
Jaguar Panthera onca predation of marine turtles: conflict between flagship species in Tortuguero, Costa Rica. Verissimo, Jones, Chaverri & Meyer, 2012
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Awesome Jaguar Predation on a Caiman
https://www.facebook.com/mastersofdirt/v...830186796/ How about this!!???  *This image is copyright of its original author
(03-15-2016, 09:35 PM)Pckts Wrote: Awesome Jaguar Predation on a Caiman I look the same news this morning from Instagram, but i forgot to share. Very interesting, thank you @Pckts 
Nice video of a jaguar killing a large caiman by jumping into the river.
Wow what a cat. 
Absolute badass. It's part of why they're my 2nd favorite cat. Just no fucks given. Baddest mofo in the jungle.
 
Can't be overstated enough the power of that jaguar to hold that caiman while it was thrashing about in the water.
Nicholas Mcphee
A sad story where a man was attacked by a Jaguar and the Jagaur was killed and beheaded. Their story is that it was an unprovoked attack - which is EXTREMLEY RARE, my guess from hearing many similar stories is that they saw it, tried to kill it and this is the result. As the Chinese have now put a price on the heads of Jaguars more and more of these attacks will happen.. From experience of having over 35 plus Jaguar sightings( many on foot) is that they are generally curious but very rarely agressive animals , and in reality you have more chance of being attacked by a pet dog or even killed by a horse or a cow. Will be interesting to see what an investigation actually comes up with  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
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