Jaguar Stalking ( Panthera onca ) - a photo on Flickriver

            The Pantanal
Brazil
South America

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This image was taken from a boat in the middle of the river surrounded by other boats trying to photograph jaguars. At times there were too many boats jockeying for position. The wild jaguars have become habituated to people and did not mind the crowds but went around doing their normal business. Tourism is keeping these great animals alive. The Pantanal is mainly made up of private ranches where cattle is raised. If not for tourism, the jaguars would be shot and killed for eating a rancher's cattle. 

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large felid species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. Its distinctively marked coat features pale yellow to tan colored fur covered by spots that transition to darker rosettes on the sides. With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in), it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world. Its powerful bite allows it to pierce the shells of turtles, and to employ an unusual killing method with mammals: it bites directly through the skull of prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain.

It inhabits a variety of forested and open terrains, but its preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, wetlands and wooded regions. The jaguar is adept at swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush apex predator that is not preyed upon in the wild. As a keystone species, it plays an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating prey populations. 

The jaguar is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, and its population is declining. = Wikipedia

Taken in: Brazil / Mato Grosso / Bom Sucesso (show map)

Taken on: August 3, 2016

Tags:

Brazil Trip 2016

Cuiaba River

Brazil

South America

Jaguar

Male

Panthera Onca

Big Cat

Predator

River

Sue Roehl

Panasonic

Lumix DMC-GH4

100 - 400 mm Lens

Hand held

Taken from Boat

Cropped

COTH

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