Tag: jaguar

December 30, 2022

Wild Cam: Researchers find high mammal diversity in Sonora

Surveys in Sonora, Mexico have found high mammal diversity along waterways, including some washes that lead toward the border into the United States. Field conservationists with Cuenca Los Ojos, a...

January 14, 2022

Watch: Jaguar calls heard on trail camera

Researchers have something unique to say about jaguars they are following using trail cameras in Guatemala: The jaguars have something unique to say. The Wildlife Conservation Society recently released video...

October 19, 2021

Nearly 1,500 jaguars killed or displaced by Brazilian fires

Fires in the Amazon have led to the death or displacement of an estimated 1,422 jaguars over three years in Brazil. Fires have increased in Brazil in recent years, many...

March 29, 2021

Could more Southwest land support more jaguars?

In 1964, a federal control agent with the U.S. government shot and killed the last known jaguar north of Interstate 10 in Arizona. While some people have spotted the animals...

March 25, 2020

Court rejects jaguar critical habitat designation

A federal appeals court ruled last week that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s designation of critical habitat for the jaguar (Panthera onca) was invalid, finding that the agency acted...

March 29, 2019

Student Research: Diverse Costa Rica spot at risk?

Adam Yaney-Keller was checking videos that showed up on his camera trap. He had placed the video camera at a small, dried-up waterfall pool where he thought he would catch...

March 7, 2017

Third jaguar in U.S. spotted in Arizona

A jaguar (Panthera onca) has been captured by trail camera in Arizona, making it the third jaguar confirmed in the United States since 2011. The camera trap captured the photo...

December 15, 2016

Possible second jaguar spotted in Arizona

Many people are aware of the jaguar nicknamed “El Jefe” that was caught on video by a camera trap just last February, but recently it seems like there’s another boss...