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07-07-2020, 01:18 AM

117kg Tiago Cerrado male Onça-Preta Death.

credits: Leandro Silveira

Leandro

''Today we received an e-mail the dark jaguar Tiago's collar is showing signs of mortality that means its been 24h the collar doesn't move then it activates this mortality mode we're heading to the field but we've noticed in the last 10 days Tiago was very concentraded in that area in the same place but we thought he was eating something we supposed he could've predated on something and could be feeding on a large carcass such as a tapir. But now with the mortality sign is very worrying already.

Lets find out if he's either dead, the collar fell off or if he's feeding on something.

Found the carcass the animal is dead and now lets figure out what happened whether it was by natural causes, accident...

Its been a while the carcass is here probably 10 days ago he was already dead unfortunately the carcass is well decomposed it makes it harder for us see some tissue marks but now we gotta find the bones to see if there's any signs of conflict attack of another jaguar or bullet marks.''

In case of Teeth marks (skull bite) the place would be here. (photo bellow)

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''I've seen jaguar skulls slaughtered by other jaguars, which happens around here where it'd be possible to kill an animal like this and as you can see there's no marks of this regard the skull is clean so now we gotta figure out what happened here.''

''Here it is we localized the Onça-Preta ( Dark Jaguar ) named Tiago who was being monitored for almost one year this animal was captured in the IOP's backyard and is now found dead at 20km from our headquarters in a ranchers area (farm) we're still have no idea about the death of this animal who was healthy, he was at his best physical condition in full force. We estimated him to be 8-9 years old.''

''And we probably will never find out since his carcass is already well deteriorated and we can't see any marks on the bones.''

Felipe

''The possibilities of his death could be either gun bullets, got ran over since theres roads here but it would take fractures as well or it could be predation in the state this corpse is. there's no way we can collect materials to take to laboratories to see if he was poisoned or disease case but the corpse on this state we unfortunately can't tell.''

Leandro

''Cerrado jaguars predate cattles in this farm right?''

Farmer

''Correct but not this one. The one we usually see predating on cattles here is the yellow one.

this type of jaguar here (Melanistic/Tiago) I didn't even see around here these times. but I've seen others around the upper areas.''

Leandro

''Now lets take that skull and head back to IOP. We'll take a look again on some points and datas from the collar to understand a bit better about how was Tiago cerrado male's whereabouts, his route until arriving here.''

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''One more day of learning, one more day of scientific intrigue, it just shows that we still know very little about this species which is our apex top chain predator and symbol of the Brazilian biodiversity.''