jaguar captured in AZ
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Topic: jaguar captured in AZ
Posted By: ckk1106
Subject: jaguar captured in AZ
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 13:44
Arizona Game and Fish collars first wild jaguar in United States
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Jaguar
conservation has just experienced an exciting development with the
first capture and collaring of a wild jaguar in the United States.
The male cat was incidentally captured by the Arizona Game and Fish
Department on Wednesday, Feb. 18, in an area southwest of Tucson during
a research study aimed at monitoring habitat connectivity for mountain
lions and black bears. While individual jaguars have been photographed
sporadically in the borderland area of the state over the past years,
the area where this animal was captured was outside of the area where
the last known jaguar photograph was taken in January.
The
jaguar was fitted with a satellite tracking collar and then released.
The collar will provide biologists with location points every three
hours. Early tracking indicates that the cat is doing well and has
already travelled more than three miles from the capture site.
The data produced by the collar will shed light on a little-studied
population segment of this species that uses southern Arizona and New
Mexico as the northern extent of its range.
While we didnt set out to collar a jaguar as part of the mountain
lion and bear research project, we took advantage of an important
opportunity, says Terry Johnson, endangered species coordinator for
the Arizona Game and Fish Department. More than 10 years ago, Game and
Fish attempted to collar a jaguar with no success. Since then, weve
established handling protocols in case we inadvertently captured a
jaguar in the course of one of our other wildlife management
activities.
The jaguar plan, which was created in consultation with other leading
jaguar experts, includes a protocol for capture, sedation and handling
in the event a cat was captured.
Biologists are currently working on an identification analysis to
determine if the collared jaguar is Macho B, a male cat that has been
photographed by trail cameras periodically over the past 13 years.
The collared jaguar weighed in at 118 pounds with a thick and solid
build. Field biologists assessment shows the cat appeared to be
healthy and hardy.
The species has been protected outside of the United States under the
Endangered Species Act since 1973. That protection was extended to
jaguars within the U.S. in 1997, the year after their presence in the
Arizona and New Mexico borderlands was confirmed.
"We issued a permit under the Endangered Species Act to radio collar a
jaguar if the opportunity presented itself," said Steve Spangle, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Arizona field supervisor. "Gathering
habitat use information and learning whether and how the cat is moving
in and out of the United States may be essential to jaguar conservation
at the northern edge of their range."
In 1997, a team was established in Arizona and New Mexico to protect
and conserve the species. The Jaguar Conservation Team (JCT) began
working with Mexico two years later, recognizing that the presence of
jaguars in the United States depends on the conservation of the species
in Mexico.
Trail cameras and field monitoring are carried out by the Borderlands
Jaguar Detection Project, a group that works in cooperation with the
JCT.
Jaguars once ranged from southern South America through Central America
and Mexico and into the southern United States. By the late 1900s,
jaguars were thought to be gone from the U.S. landscape, but two
independent sightings in 1996 confirmed that jaguars still used Arizona
and New Mexico as part of the northern most extent of its range.
Jaguars are the only cat in North America that roars. They prey on a
variety of mammals, fish, birds and reptiles. Individuals in the
northern population weigh between 80-120 pounds. Females breed
year-round and have litters of one to four cubs that stay with their
mother for nearly two years.
This conservation effort is funded in part by the Heritage Fund and
Indian gaming revenue. Started in 1990, the Heritage Fund was
established by Arizona voters to further conservation efforts in the
state including protecting endangered species, educating our children
about wildlife, helping urban residents to better coexist with wildlife
and creating new opportunities for outdoor recreation. Funding comes
from Arizona Lottery ticket sales.
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Posted By: 300S&W
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 13:53
D*MNED illegal immigrants!
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Posted By: RONK
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 14:16
That's a really cool cat, but it kind of ticks me off that they have to go and collar and "track" every wild animal on the face of the earth. Just let it go free already!
Meanwhile all the illegal humans- well we can't keep track of them!
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Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 14:52
Couldn't they be a food source for the cat??
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Posted By: lucytuma
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 17:26
Now that Possative thinking!
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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 18:24
RONK wrote:
That's a really cool cat, but it kind of ticks me off that they have to go and collar and "track" every wild animal on the face of the earth. Just let it go free already!
Meanwhile all the illegal humans- well we can't keep track of them!
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WORD.....
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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 18:36
Dogger wrote:
Couldn't they be a food source for the cat?? |
HAHAHAHAHAHA............
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Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 19:15
We could use a LOT more jaguars here...
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Posted By: RONK
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 20:49
Dogger wrote:
Couldn't they be a food source for the cat?? |
Seriously, don't you kind of wonder if some of them vanish in the desert for that very reason?
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Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 20:56
Hope floats...
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Posted By: billyburl2
Date Posted: February/21/2009 at 21:51
Just one more reason to live in sunny beautiful Arizona
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Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 08:37
Well, I'm glad we got jaguars......even if he is wearin' a stupid collar. They really do give them some information that is probably helpful. Anyway, the MAIN THING is we got a jaguar......!!!!
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Posted By: RONK
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 12:04
Yeah, except that the stupid collar he now has to wear will probably make all the lady jaguars avoid him as some kind of a freak, thus ensuring his inevitable extinction. But hey, at least Fish and Game will know where he is when he dies. (Alone and bitter, cursing the Arizona Fish and Game Dept...)
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Posted By: rifle looney
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 12:07
It is a sad situation....if it is a collar like the ones they use around here in Cali it will fall off in a years time but in this case they might want to monitor longer than that lets hope not.
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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 12:08
I wonder if the jaguar gets gas from "eating Mexican" like I do??
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Posted By: cyborg
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 13:32
cheaptrick wrote:
I wonder if the jaguar gets gas from "eating Mexican" like I do?? | Me too.............It shouldn't be a problem unless he's deer hunting and sitting on a pickle bucket though.
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Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 20:36
cheaptrick wrote:
I wonder if the jaguar gets gas from "eating Mexican" like I do?? |
CT, You have left yourself open to an entire deviant line of comment and questioning. However, I will not engage in such an obvious distraction. BUT, does anyone else have any question on CT"s comments on getting gas from "eating Mexican". Probably not...
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Posted By: Monster
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 21:19
Beans are the magical fruit ya know (interpret as you wish)
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Posted By: Kickboxer
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 21:25
Who's talking about beans??????
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Posted By: Monster
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 21:27
beans-beaners all in the same.
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Posted By: cyborg
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 22:57
Kickboxer wrote:
cheaptrick wrote:
I wonder if the jaguar gets gas from "eating Mexican" like I do?? |
CT,
You have left yourself open to an entire deviant line of comment and questioning. However, I will not engage in such an obvious distraction.
BUT, does anyone else have any question on CT"s comments on getting gas from "eating Mexican". Probably not... | Yes he might should have used the word "FOOD" somewhere in there.
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Posted By: mike650
Date Posted: February/22/2009 at 23:36
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Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 16:57
Maybe they can fill the Rio Grande with A-1. That way when the Jag does have mexican for supper, they can be flavored so it can cover up for those who are less than a prime cut.
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Posted By: cyborg
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 17:04
SD Dog wrote:
Maybe they can fill the Rio Grande with A-1. That way when the Jag does have mexican for supper, they can be flavored so it can cover up for those who are less than a prime cut. | You don't think the spices are enough?
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Posted By: billyburl2
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 17:29
Ummm the Rio Grande is in Texas.... No rivers on the border in Arizona.....
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Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 17:56
cyborg wrote:
SD Dog wrote:
Maybe they can fill the Rio Grande with A-1. That way when the Jag does have mexican for supper, they can be flavored so it can cover up for those who are less than a prime cut. | You don't think the spices are enough? |
Yeah, they might be spicy enough, but old, tired, stringy mexican is
kind of like the dried out pot roast you get a the in-laws. Need
something to make it slide down. Wait a second, I'm missing
something. What are the called? Wet what? Maybe the sauce isn't
needed after all to moisten them up. Isn't that how CT takes his mexican? Moist?
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Posted By: SD Dog
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 17:58
billyburl2 wrote:
Ummm the Rio Grande is in Texas.... No rivers on the border in Arizona..... |
I know, I know. Major river in the same part of the US...... I got nothin.
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Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 18:48
billyburl2 wrote:
Ummm the Rio Grande is in Texas.... No rivers on the border in Arizona..... |
( .........I once took a piss in Arizona and it made like a little creek for about 30 seconds.....)
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Posted By: billyburl2
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 19:33
sueprised it lasted that long... you must've really had to to go!
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Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 20:36
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Posted By: CountryLegend
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 23:29
Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: February/27/2009 at 11:09
I had been drinking beer since Deming !!!!
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Posted By: pyro6999
Date Posted: February/27/2009 at 12:45
i bet you did that a few times in wyoming with similar results!
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Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: February/28/2009 at 08:03
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Posted By: ckk1106
Date Posted: March/07/2009 at 13:09
Well, Arizona game and fish managed to kill that jaguar.
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/283124 - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/03/jaguar-macho-b.html - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/03/jaguar-macho-b.html
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Posted By: cheaptrick
Date Posted: March/07/2009 at 13:14
ckk1106 wrote:
Well, Arizona game and fish managed to kill that jaguar.
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/283124 - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/03/jaguar-macho-b.html - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/03/jaguar-macho-b.html
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Figures....People just can't leave well enough alone, can they?
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Posted By: Dogger
Date Posted: March/07/2009 at 13:39
Excerpt:
"I'm glad they collared him," Rice said. Otherwise, "he would have just gone off and died somewhere on his own," Rice said.
WTF?? Maybe I'm missing something here, the logic just escapes me...
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Posted By: Ed Connelly
Date Posted: March/07/2009 at 18:06
NOTE TO ARIZONA: Just photograph the animals and leave them alone. Thank You.
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