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Rare Jaguars Spotted in Arizona and Mexico
Yahoo ^ | Feb 22, 2009 | Robert Roy Britt

Posted on 02/25/2009 11:12:37 AM PST by george76

The Arizona Game and Fish Department caught and collared a wild jaguar in Arizona for the first time, officials said Thursday. While a handful of the big cats have been photographed by automatic cameras in recent years, the satellite tracking collar will now help biologists learn more about this animal's range.

Meanwhile, a jaguar was spotted in central Mexico for the first time in a century. Scientists photographed the cat with an automatic camera set alongside a trail thought to be frequented by the spotted felines.

The male cat in Arizona was captured southwest of Tucson during a study aimed at monitoring habitat connectivity for mountain lions and black bears. The healthy beast weighed in at 118 pounds with a thick and solid build.

Jaguars are the only cats in North America that roar. They're considered the largest cats in the Western Hemisphere. Adults commonly weigh up to 211 pounds (96 kg), though 300-pounders have been reported

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; arizona; bigcats; cats; jaguars; kittyping; mexico; peta
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To: Tijeras_Slim

—thanks—read about him in the outdoor magazines when I was a kid—


41 posted on 02/25/2009 12:20:09 PM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: george76

Oh, boy, a large man eating cat, far more dangerous than the mountain lion, will now become a protected species in Arizona and other western states as it starts to spread out and increase it’s range by eating excess humans! If you think they are not man eaters ask around the south American jungles, they will tell you the truth about Jags.


42 posted on 02/25/2009 12:59:15 PM PST by calex59
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To: george76
Jaguars are the only cats in North America that roar. They're considered the largest cats in the Western Hemisphere. Adults commonly weigh up to 211 pounds (96 kg), though 300-pounders have been reported
Hey, what could go wrong? Thanks geo.
43 posted on 02/25/2009 2:24:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: americanophile

“How fast will these be shot once people understand the range of their habitat?”

How fast will these be shot once people understand the danger such cats pose?

Fixed it.

;-)


44 posted on 02/25/2009 3:53:13 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: george76

S S & S !!!!


45 posted on 02/25/2009 4:09:20 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: TFMcGuire
"These are not your mild-dispositioned pumas."

Mild-dispositioned pumas are an imaginary breed. An old friend had captured a Puma as a cub around 1958, and kept her in his garage, which he had turned into a cage with chain-link fencing across where the door had been. The last time that I saw her, before the state had confiscated her, was in 1969, and at that time she was still nasty and wild to her feeders most of the time.

46 posted on 02/25/2009 4:18:16 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: calex59
Then it won't be safe for Illegals to cross the border there. Oh my.

sw

47 posted on 02/25/2009 4:23:34 PM PST by spectre (sw )(Congress lied...the economy died)
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To: george76

What a cute putty!!!!


48 posted on 02/25/2009 4:28:30 PM PST by geege
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To: Tijeras_Slim

That one looks to be a 300-lber. At least.


49 posted on 02/25/2009 4:33:21 PM PST by txhurl (ralph...)
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To: Constitution Day

50 posted on 02/25/2009 4:37:49 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: GladesGuru

Perhaps we should kill everything, everywhere...that way no one will ever get hurt no matter how remote the chance?


51 posted on 02/25/2009 5:06:29 PM PST by americanophile
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To: Osage Orange

In Comparison, My friend.

I am aware of increasing numbers of cougar attacks in the U.S.

Read Peter Capstick’s accounts of Jaguar hunts however.

A cougar will not usually attack an adult male and they’ll usually run from a pack of dogs.

They will normally tree when hunted and were frequently dispatched with a pistol after treeing.

Jaguars not so.


52 posted on 02/25/2009 7:46:21 PM PST by TFMcGuire (Life is tough. It is even tougher if you are stupid--John Wayne)
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To: americanophile

“Perhaps we should kill everything, everywhere...that way no one will ever get hurt no matter how remote the chance?”

Perhaps one might consider looking up “reductio ad absurdam”?

As an unambiguous fact, when large bodied predators are hunted regularly such predators learn which species can, and will, kill them.

Check page 109 of The Yellowstone Park Nature Book. The description deliniates why wolves in America were not a danger to man whereas they were (and still are) in Eastern Europe, etc.

Hint: The line containing “...they learned to their great regret that nearly every man and boy carried a rifle.”

When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey.


53 posted on 02/26/2009 5:25:39 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: TFMcGuire
Fair enough.........

Thanks...and FRegards,

54 posted on 02/26/2009 5:47:42 PM PST by Osage Orange (Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
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To: GladesGuru
It's not absurd at all, since you raised potential safety issues about an animal so rarely encountered in its environment that it was thought not to exist and is seen only in glimpses on snapshots taken by remote cameras. I cannot stand the ‘safety uber alles’ crowd that eliminates everything fun, mysterious and non-benign on the basis of hypothetical safety issues.
55 posted on 02/27/2009 11:24:54 AM PST by americanophile
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To: americanophile

What you read is not what I wrote.

As long as animals are hunted, they understand their “proper place”.

Start enforcing the ESA and one removes the only thing that removed man from the diet of predators. I refer to gunpowder, of course.

If you are as fond of large bodied predators as you seem, consider this: a predator which has learned to be deathly afraid of man is a predator which may be allowed to exist.

If you really do value predators like jaguars, as I do, then you might consider that the only jaguar acceptable to modern man is one that is deathly afraid of man.

On the other hand, if you have drunk the enviro-socialist Kool-Ade, then the only answer will be immense amounts of land - “critical habitat”, blah, blah, blabber, blabber.

In closing, I do not agree with spending immense amounts of money on “reintroducing” a dangerous predator which was at the very northern extent of its range.

To date, all large bodied predator programs have been pools of unending cess, into which property rights, the earnings of generations yet unborn., and even human lives have disappeared.

Being mauled, killed and eaten is not hypothetical, as those who live where jaguars lurk will tell you.


56 posted on 02/27/2009 4:38:26 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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