On the evening of March 15, 2016, two large jaguars walked along a narrow lakeshore trail in Venezuela’s Llanos ecosystem, a vast mosaic of seasonally flooded lowland savannas, forests, pastures and ranches. At 9:13 p.m., they passed a remote camera trap set by Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, a researcher at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), […]
The abundance of aquatic and semi-aquatic animals in the Taiamã Ecological Station in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands has enabled jaguars here to thrive in surprising ways, a new study shows.