Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 4:34:04 GMT -6
The video footage shows a jaguar padding its way through the brush of the Santa Rita Mountains and climbing nimbly over rocks along a flowing stream.
Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity released the 40-second video Wednesday, saying the jaguar is the only one of its kind living in the wild in the United States and the video was the first time footage of a U.S. jaguar in the wild was released publicly.
“Studying these elusive cats anywhere is extremely difficult, but following the only known individual in the U.S. is especially challenging,” Chris Bugbee, a biologist with Conservation CATalyst who collects data on the jaguar, said in a news release.
“We use our specially trained scat detection dog and spent three years tracking in rugged mountains, collecting data and refining camera sites; these videos represent the peak of our efforts,” Bugbee said.
Read more: tucson.com/news/only-wild-jaguar-in-us-captured-on-video-south-of/article_599dc320-8346-5e5a-8238-b316cf0d51e4.html
Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity released the 40-second video Wednesday, saying the jaguar is the only one of its kind living in the wild in the United States and the video was the first time footage of a U.S. jaguar in the wild was released publicly.
“Studying these elusive cats anywhere is extremely difficult, but following the only known individual in the U.S. is especially challenging,” Chris Bugbee, a biologist with Conservation CATalyst who collects data on the jaguar, said in a news release.
“We use our specially trained scat detection dog and spent three years tracking in rugged mountains, collecting data and refining camera sites; these videos represent the peak of our efforts,” Bugbee said.
Read more: tucson.com/news/only-wild-jaguar-in-us-captured-on-video-south-of/article_599dc320-8346-5e5a-8238-b316cf0d51e4.html