Jaguars wake up to a winter wonderland at the San Diego Zoo, USA

Jaguars wake up to a winter wonderland at the San Diego Zoo


29-04-2016  CBS8.com (USA)


A one-year-old jaguar cub and his mom woke up to an unexpected surprise Thursday morning at the San Diego Zoo when they encountered piles of fresh snow blanketing their habitat. 

One-year-old Valerio and his mom, Nindiri, entered the exhibit cautiously. However, in no time at all, the pair started exploring, climbing and showcasing their natural behaviors while enjoying their new winter wonderland.

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This was the first time the two jaguars have encountered snow. Jaguars are typically native to the warmer climates of North and South America. They are the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, and the third largest of the world's cats.

According the the San Diego Zoo, the 8-tons of fresh snow was provided through a donation to the Zoo's animal care wish list as an enrichment item for the jaguars. The San Diego Zoo provides enrichment items for the animals in their care to encourage their natural behaviors, allowing them the opportunity to thrive.

Guyana - Third jaguar shipped to city

Third jaguar shipped to city 

07-04-2016  | By KNews | Filed Under News, Kaieteur News, Guyana


The last jaguar captured by Randy Carter and a group of young men from Capoey Mission several weeks ago, was transported to Georgetown on Tuesday by officers of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Residents had been feeding it while they kept it. The first two jaguars were caught by several young men of Mainstay/ Whyaka. The jaguars travelled from the Savannahs in search of water and food due to the prolonged extreme dry weather. Dogs and other domesticated animals are their preferred prey.

A Tapakuma resident said that her community has a remaining number of not more than ten dogs. The jaguars have devoured a many of the dogs at Tapakuma, Mainstay/Whyaka and at Lima Sands. Residents in Lima Sands are reportedly still seeing jaguars under their houses. (Yannason Duncan)

Guyana - Yet another trapped jaguar

Yet another trapped jaguar 

05-04-2016  By KNews | Filed Under News, Kaieteur News, Guyana


The jaguar which was captured by a group of young men at Capoey Mission several weeks ago is being fed chicken. The jaguar which is still to be removed from the hinterland community by members of the Environmental Protection Agency was trapped several weeks ago. The EPA is however making preparatory arrangements to have the jaguar removed.

The recent jaguar is the third to be captured in a hinterland community on the Essequibo. Traps have been constructed and set up in the communities of Tapakuma, Capoey and Mainstay/Whyaka.

The jaguars have been roaming those areas in search of food because of the prolonged dry weather. Dogs and other domesticated animals have been the jaguars’ preys. Residents have however noted that there still exists a number of jaguars in the remote areas.

The first jaguar was caught by Chris Allen of Mainstay while his cousin, Troy Fredricks assisted him with the capture of the second; both were caught at Mainstay/Whyaka.

Meanwhile, the third jaguar which was caught at Capoey, some seven to eight miles from Mainstay/ Whyaka was trapped by Randy Carter and a group of young men. (Yannason Duncan)

Guyana - Mainstay residents trap huge jaguar

Mainstay residents trap huge jaguar 

12-03-2016  | By KNews | Filed Under News Kaieteur News, Guyana


Weeks after a Mainstay/Whayaka resident captured a jaguar by luring the animal into a wooden trap, Chris Allen, and his cousin, Troy Fredricks, are responsible for successfully capturing a second jaguar.

On Wednesday night sometime around 20:00 hours, at an area called ”Jump, Jump”, the exact area where the first jaguar was caught, the two men activated their trap with more success.
It was noted that once the residents were cautioned not to harm the jaguars, they have opted to constructing wooden traps in the area for the safe capture of the jaguars.

According to reports, Allen was promised a large sum of money for the capture of the first jaguar but never received that money. Both Allen and Fredricks are now reluctant to hand over the jaguar unless they are handsomely rewarded monetarily.

It is still yet not clear how long Fredricks intends to house this second animal. However from reports, it is understood that members of the Environmental Protection Agency will not venture to the Coast to claim the animal. The jaguars venture from the savannahs in search of food given the drought conditions.

But since their emergence, they have been creating tremendous havoc in the hinterland areas. Many residents have complained of losing their dogs and other domesticated animals to the roaming jaguars.

Meanwhile, residents living in Tapakuma, trapped another huge jaguar which has since escaped. It was reported that the cage (trap) was not sturdy. (Yannason Duncan)

Only Known Jaguar in U.S. Filmed in Rare Video

Conservationists filmed El Jefe—which means “the boss” in Spanish—roaming Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains 

03-02-2016 National Geographic

El Jefe, the only wild jaguar known in the United States, has made his film debut. In unprecedented video released by the nonprofits Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity, the big cat is seen prowling the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, Arizona.

He's no stranger to the media limelight, though: Trail cameras have photographed the male more than a hundred times over the past three years, and schoolchildren named him El Jefe—which means "the boss" in Spanish—during a nationwide contest in 2015. (See "'Indomitable' Jaguars May Have Lessons in Survival for Us.")

To catch the solitary cat on camera, conservationists used dogs to sniff out jaguar scat, and then installed cameras in these strategic spots.

A U.S. jaguar is rare indeed. As late as the 19th century, the big cats frequently roamed from northern Argentina into Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. But ranchers and farmers settling the American West pushed the world's third-largest cat out of its territory.

By the time Arizona's last legally hunted jaguars were shot in the 1960s, there were no known females left in the U.S. The species is now listed as near-threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Today only the occasional outlier like El Jefe makes an appearance. (See "First Jaguar Caught in U.S. Put to Sleep.")

“He's typical of the extreme toehold that this species maintains in the U.S.,” says Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer for Panthera, a global wild-cat conservation organization.

“Since 1996 there has been evidence of a jaguar in New Mexico or Arizona every year. But I think it has been a total of four or five individuals and they've all been adult males.”

El Jefe and his male predecessors seem to have dispersed from the closest breeding population which is located in Sonora, Mexico, more than 125 miles (200 kilometers) to the south.

“Probably these individuals left that breeding population in Sonora and struck out on their own as young male jaguars do,” Hunter explains. “Their mothers kick them out of their birth home range, and these young male cats are great explorers.” (Learn more about National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative.)

Thanks to his epic journey, El Jefe is the boss of 764,207 acres (309,263 hectares) of Arizona and New Mexico set aside by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as critical jaguar habitat.

“He's managed to find what a male jaguar really wants—space and a good habitat with lots of prey like white-tailed deer,” Hunters says.

More jaguars would likely find the area to their liking, Hunter adds, but females' stay-at-home nature leaves future U.S. population growth in doubt. (See "Pictures: Jaguars Spotted on Colombian Plantation—A First.")

“For a female cat to naturally colonize the United States again from that Sonora population would be really difficult.”

Guyanese vicepresident weigert controversiële jaguarhuid van wand in zijn kantoor te verwijderen

Minister van Toerisme vraagt vicepresident Ramjattan jaguarhuid te verwijderen

De jaguar is Guyana's nationaal dier

23-12-2015  De Surinaamse Krant/Demerara Waves-Caribbean News Desk


Vicepresident Khemraj Ramjattan van Guyana weigert in te gaan op verzoeken van de minister van Toerisme Cathy Hughes en van burgers om een huid van een jaguar, het nationale dier van het land, te verwijderen van de muur van zijn kantoor. Dit bericht vandaag, woensdag 23 december 2015, de Guyanese nieuwswebsite Demerara Waves/Caribbean News Desk.

De afgelopen maanden zijn er tevergeefs verschillende verzoeken geweest en is op social media een campagne gestart om de vicepresident te bewegen de jaguarhuid te verwijderen.

Ramjattan zei tegen de redactie van Demerara Waves, dat hetgeen aan de wand is bevestigd in zijn kantoor voor hem van 'sentimentele' waarde is.

'Dat is mijn persoonlijke jaguarhuid die ik 20 jaar geleden al had in de kamers van mijn privépraktijk en ik ben er sentimenteel aan gehecht geraakt', aldus Ramjattan.

Op de vraag of hij niet vindt dat de huid van de jaguar aan zijn wand niet ongepast is, antwoordde Ramjattan negatief.

'Wat is er ongepast aan? Ik haal de huid niet van de muur. Absoluut niet.'

Mooie momenten: de vrijlating van een inbeslaggenomen ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) en baardsaki (Chiropotes santana)

(Bron foto's: 's Lands Bosbeheer, afd. Natuurbeheer)

Baardsaki of Bisa (Chiropotes santana)
Het vrijlaten van een in beslaggenomen Baardsaki of Bisa (Chiropotes santana).
Posted by LBB afdeling Natuurbeheer on woensdag 28 oktober 2015