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Jaguar Predation
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Photo and information credits: Luiz Claudio Marigo
"Onça pintada (Panthera onca) com Jacaretinga (Caiman crocodilus) no Pantanal do Mato Grosso"  *This image is copyright of its original author
  (08-25-2016, 04:12 AM)SVTIGRIS Wrote: Wouldn't like to be inbetween those jaws that's for sure. Recently I went to the Berlin zoo and saw some jags, absolutely beautiful and large animals, larger than expected. It's yawn sent a shiver down my spine. It's still the only big cat I haven't seen in person! I remember thinking the same thing just seeing a leopard for the first time, a jag would blow me away I'm sure. Lions and tigers are different, you already expect "big" when you see them, it's the smaller "big cats" that always catch me by surprise. Leopards, snow leopards, Cougars and I'm sure jags as well.
Nicholas Mcphee
Amazing animal which we could lose if we continue on the route we are taking. https://www.facebook.com/pantanalbirdclu...582120063/
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Gotcha. Brazil, Pantanal. October 2016.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Jaguar with a Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) kill. Kabalebo, Suriname. From Nature - My View, credits to Armida Madngisa.
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 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2017/feb/21/jaguar-giant-anteater-amazon-rainforest-camera-trap-brazil
predation on a loggerhead sea turtle
"The loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) is considered a highly migratory species, distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters (Bolten and Witherington, 2003; Wallace et al., 2010). It is categorized as a vulnerable species by the IUCN Red List, with the main threats being fisheries bycatch, coastal development, commercial exploitation (e.g. consumption of eggs), human disturbance (e.g. coastal lighting) and climate change (Casale and Tucker, 2015). However, the relative importance of these threats may vary throughout the geographic distribution of the species. In Costa Rica sporadic nesting has been recorded along the Caribbean coast (Piniak and Eckert, 2011) including Pacuare, Playa Norte and Tortuguero beaches (L. Fonseca, pers. comm.). Tortuguero beach hosts a small population of loggerheads, characterized by very low numbers of females nesting sporadically throughout the year (Sea Turtle Conservancy, pers. comm.). At this site, jaguar Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) predation upon nesting females could represent an additional threat for this species, as predation has been documented previously on the green turtle (Chelonia mydas Linnaeus, 1758), the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea Vandelli, 1761) and the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata Linnaeus, 1766) (Arroyo-Arce and Salom-Pérez, 2015). Herein, we present the first documented record of the predation of a loggerhead by a jaguar in Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica. Tortuguero National Park is located on the northeastern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica (10o 32’28’’ N - 83o 30’08’’ W). The park encompasses approximately 29 km of coastline, which extends from the Jalova River mouth in the South, to the Tortuguero River mouth in the North. The beach is bordered by Tropical Wet Forest (Holdridge, 1969). Elevation ranges from zero to 311 m above sea level. Average temperatures ranges from 25 to 30o C, with a mean annual precipitation of 6,000 mm (Bermúdez and Hernández, 2004). Jaguar predation on marine turtles was incidentally recorded at Tortuguero beach since 1956 by the Sea Turtle Conservancy (Troëng, 2000), during their long-term turtle monitoring activities. However, in 2005 a systematic study was established by Global Vision International, who then entered into partnership with Coastal Jaguar Conservation in 2012, to further investigate this predator-prey interaction. Both study teams carried out weekly surveys along the beach to record the number of predated turtles. Jaguar predation was assumed upon the observation of unequivocal cues (e.g. bite marks and puncture wounds on the skull or neck, dragging evidence, jaguar tracks). For each jaguar predation event, the marine turtle species and coordinates were recorded. For a more detailed description of the methodology see Veríssimo et al. (2012), Guilder et al. (2015) and Arroyo-Arce and Thomson (2016). On the 14 May 2014, a freshly predated loggerhead was discovered at Tortuguero beach (10o 28’18.4’’ N - 83o 27’57.9’’ W). The carcass was first encountered at the edge of the beach, with bite marks on the neck area of the animal, and jaguar tracks present around the carcass. The following day, the carcass had been dragged several meters into the vegetation adjacent to the beach. The organs of the turtle had been partially consumed, but the flippers and head of the animal were still intact (Fig. 1).  *This image is copyright of its original author To our knowledge, this constitutes the first documented event of a loggerhead turtle predated by a jaguar, not just at Tortuguero beach but also throughout its entire geographical range. Since loggerhead nesting in the study area occurs very infrequently (1-2 females encountered per season; Sea Turtle Conservancy, pers. comm.), the probability for an encounter between loggerheads and jaguars, and therefore predation rate, should be very low in comparison with the other species of sea turtles that nest in larger numbers at the beach (Arroyo-Arce and Salom-Pérez, 2015). In the absence of additional evidence, it is difficult to ascertain the effect of jaguar predation on the nesting population of loggerhead turtles at Tortuguero beach." http://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/view/24892/25870   *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 Incredible Bite Power of Jaguars - picture 2 young Cattle killed with a Bite at the base of the neck fractured the skull (Hato El Socorro, Cojedes, Venezuela) - picture 3 Bite to the back of the skull fractured skull of Adult Cattle killed by a Jaguar (La Fortuna, Hato Paraima, Venezuela) - picture 4 Turtle Carapace killed and consumed by a Jaguar (Hato El Socorro, Cojedes, Venezuela) Information and pictures taken from the Book El Jaguar Tigre Americano  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author A few Cattle Ranches in the Venezuelan Llanos and in The pantanal in Brazil have Water Buffalos (Bubalus bubalis) to prevent predation of Cattle by Jaguars and Pumas, it is working very well adding only a few individuals of Water Buffalos because they don`t have problems with Cattle and when they see a Jaguar or a Puma trying to hunt Cattle they confront them and they go away, they are very aggresive with them they are always ready to confront them (Jaguars and Pumas). Cattle Ranches only lose a few individuals.
Jaguar Bite Force
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The damage they can do to bone is just insane, top top predators. On another note, it is a lie that they have the highest bite force of any cat right? I think I have some data on sumartran tigers actually having stronger jaws.
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