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Rare Jaguar Spotted in Arizona Mountains
Tucson News Now ^
| Thursday, September 14th 2017
| Carolyn Yaussy
Posted on 09/14/2017 12:48:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Center for Biological Diversity released video of a wild jaguar caught on a trail cam in the Chiricahua Mountains. The jaguar appears to be the same one that was photographed in November 2016 in the Dos Cabezas Mountains, according to a news release.
Students at the Paolo Freire Freedom School in Tucson named the jaguar "Sombra."
Researchers said that these images taken seven months apart are good evidence that the animal has made southern Arizona its home.
The center said jaguars have been photographed in the United States for the past 20 years.
Three jaguars have been spotted in Arizona since 2015: El Jefe, Yo'oko, and now Sombra.
Researchers are hopeful that these sightings signal a recovery in the American southwest.
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
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To: nickcarraway
I was under the impression that Arizona was the far northern extent of the jaguar’s range.
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:50:12 PM PDT
by
txnativegop
(Socialism -- an evil created by ignorant a-holes!)
To: nickcarraway
Prairie dogs are more fun.
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:50:26 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:50:31 PM PDT
by
squarebarb
( Fairy tales are basically true.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:50:34 PM PDT
by
txnativegop
(Socialism -- an evil created by ignorant a-holes!)
To: nickcarraway
Very cool.
I like the idea of big cats in the neighborhood.
I’ve lived in SoCal for a long time, and i still get a kick out of the fact that “there’s lions in them thar hills.”
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:51:41 PM PDT
by
karnage
To: nickcarraway
Pretty cool. I don’t really want to see it in person, but I think the animals are exceptionally interesting. I wonder if ranchers have problems with big cats like these out there.
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:51:41 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(If all you have is a Hammer and Sickle, everything looks like a fascist. *HT to Freeper GCFADG!*)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:52:24 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: txnativegop
It is that.
Still, I was expecting One picture of the car in a post :)
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:52:47 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: nickcarraway
The Center for Biological Diversity ??? Wow. Just wow.
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:55:05 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! It is offical, we are at war!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:56:08 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! It is offical, we are at war!)
To: DIRTYSECRET
"...Prairie dogs are more fun..."
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:56:25 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(If all you have is a Hammer and Sickle, everything looks like a fascist. *HT to Freeper GCFADG!*)
To: nickcarraway
another rare Jaguar
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:57:10 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: nickcarraway
Center for Biological Diversity is often suspected of faking jaguar photographs and the like. When they were building a school one time the neighborhood set up a 24 hour watch because they were afraid Center for Biological Diversity would plant an owl nest.
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:57:34 PM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: ColdOne
See, this is another reason I despise and detest liberalism.
“Diversity” used to be a perfectly good word, useful, descriptive, well suited to the use of it.
Now, I even see “D...I...V...E...R...S...” and my blood pressure spikes.
It is kind of the same thing that happens to me when I see any representation of a rainbow apart from a real one that fills the sky.
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posted on
09/14/2017 12:59:15 PM PDT
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rlmorel
(If all you have is a Hammer and Sickle, everything looks like a fascist. *HT to Freeper GCFADG!*)
To: \/\/ayne
Okay, that did make me laugh. “planting an owl nest”.
What a bunch of deranged lunatics.
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09/14/2017 1:00:22 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(If all you have is a Hammer and Sickle, everything looks like a fascist. *HT to Freeper GCFADG!*)
To: nickcarraway
The F-type is my favorite Jag...
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posted on
09/14/2017 1:02:33 PM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
To: nickcarraway
Oh. I was thinking a lightweight E-Type... Nevermind.
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posted on
09/14/2017 1:11:59 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: nickcarraway
Jaguar’s aren’t that rare. Tell me when they spot a Bugatti.
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posted on
09/14/2017 1:14:43 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: karnage
We have a female cougar settled within five mile of home here in southern Indiana. LIves along the river. When it floods she moves up to high land very close to my home Have seen her twice
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posted on
09/14/2017 1:15:28 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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