The United States ' only known Panthera onca has been captured on moving-picture show for the first sentence ever .
The 41 seconds of footage is the product of three years of tracking by researchers from Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity . With the helper of specially trained poop - detection frankfurter , the squad managed to catch the footage on distant sensing element cameras . The handsome lone wolf was found in the Santa Rita Mountains , just 40 kilometers ( 25 miles ) from downtown Tucson , Arizona .
The male jaguar has been named El Jefe , which means “ The Boss ” in Spanish .
He is thought to be the last stay jaguar in the United States since “ Macho B ” wascompassionately euthanizedin 2009 . concord toNational Geographic , the near known population of breeding wild jaguars are over 200 kilometer ( 125 miles ) aside in Sonora , Mexico .
But despite the exceptionality of El Jefe , his home is facing a Brobdingnagian scourge . The Rosemont Mine is a proposed copper mining project that will be built slap - bang in the centre of the Felis onca ’s range .
In anonline statement , Chris Bugbee , a biologist at Conservation CATalyst , enounce , “ The Rosemont Mine would ruin El Jefe ’s home and sternly hamstring recovery of jaguars in the United States . ”
He added , “ distinctly , the Santa Rita Mountains are a life-sustaining part of this cat ’s home cooking stove . This Panthera onca has been shoot in every month of the twelvemonth in these good deal – there are more than 100 detections of him in the Santa Ritas since 2013 – how could anyone indicate the grandness of these mountains ? ”
preservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity released new television today of the only bonk raging jaguar presently in the United States . Captured on distant detector tv camera in the Santa Rita Mountains just alfresco of Tucson , the striking footage provide a glimpse of the secretive life of one of nature ’s most lofty and magnetic creatures . This is the first - ever publicly secrete video of the # jaguar , recently named ' El Jefe ' by Tucson bookman , and it comes at a critical point in this computed axial tomography ’s preservation . get a line more here : http://www.biologicaldiversity.org / news / press_releases/2016 / jaguar-02 - 03 …
Posted byCenter for Biological Diversityon Wednesday , February 3 , 2016
