Elusive Jaguars Found in Arizona [View All]

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Source: Red Orbit

As the U.S. government plans to complete a pedestrian fence to effectively seal off heavily crossed areas of the border between the U.S. and Mexico, environmentalists and biologists like Emil McCain are studying the possibly negative effects imposed on a group of extremely rare jaguars.

McCain, a wildlife graduate student at Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif., was recently thrilled to find four photographs of the elusive jaguars taken by remote cameras stationed in the Arizona desert in a project to support his master’s thesis on mountain lion activity.

McCain said the government enforced immigration fence could prohibit the remaining jaguar population from venturing into their conventional territory.

"Because there are no females and no reproduction, jaguars in the United States are totally dependent on cross-border movement," said McCain. "That connectivity with Mexico is absolutely crucial."


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A rare wild jaguar seen and photographed in the United States by hunter Warner Glenn is bayed by hounds during a hunting trip at an unknown location in southwestern New Mexico, February 20, 2006. Glenn and other members of his hunting party caught the hounds and led them away after they cornered the jaguar. The male jaguar, which weighed around 200 pounds, left the site at a slow trot unharmed. Jaguars are extremely rare in the United States, and Glenn is believed to be the only person to have encountered and photographed one in the wild. Photograph taken February 20, 2006.
(Warner Glenn/Handout/Reuters)