Photo Provides Evidence of Jaguars in the Wild
A jaguar was photographed by a motion-activated camera set out in southern Arizona to monitor potential jaguar corridors near the U.S.-Mexico border.
The photo shot in early December gave state game officials new evidence that jaguars, the biggest cats in the Western Hemisphere, visit the southern part of the state and may even live there.
“It is great to know that jaguars are roaming our borderlands, at least occasionally,” said Brad Van Pelt of the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
Jaguars were last documented in Arizona in 1996 in the Baboquivari Mountains west of Tucson and in the Peloncillo Mountains near San Simon.
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