Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal. Panthera Onca at the Meeting of the Waters

Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Individual jaguars

1. Identifying individual jaguars Paul Brooke and Paul Donahue

Section 3: Setting the scene

2. Habitat for Jaguars Paul Donahue

Section 4: Jaguar biology

3. Characteristics and physiology Paul Brooke

4. Once they were even larger Paul Brooke

5. Prey items of jaguars Paul Brooke

6. Bite force and consumption of prey Paul Brooke

7. Tree-climbing ability of jaguars

8. Territories, population density, and the jaguar corridor Paul Brooke

9. Flehmen response and scent lures Paul Brooke

10. The not so solitary Paul Donahue

11. Mating, cub rearing, and natal disperal Paul Brooke

12. Suffering and grooming Paul Brooke

13. Aging and geriatric jaguars Paul Brooke

Section 5: Jaguar tourism and conservation

14. Jaguar tourism Paul Donahue

15. The scourge of humans Paul Brooke

16. Jaguars have a cow problem Paul Donahue

17. Safeguarding cattle with cattle and water buffaloes Paul Brooke

18. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals Paul Donahue

19. Hydrophilia and mercury poisoning Paul Brooke

Section 6: Miscellaneous

20. Isca da On�a Paul Donahue

21. Miscellaneous observations and information Paul Donahue

22. Field notes Paul Donahue

23. Pantanal way points for 2017 and 2019 Paul Donahue

24. Jaguar identification guide examples and names Abbie Martin, Paul Brooke

Section 7: Final thoughts

25. Laying aside fear, embracing beauty Paul Brooke

Authors' biographies

Index

Authors

Paul Brooke Paul Brooke is currently a Professor at Grand View University.. Paul Brooke is currently a Professor at Grand View University. Previously, he was a biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Service on the North Slope of Alaska, a naturalist for the U.S. Forestry Service on Lake Superior and at Wenatchee in Washington State. He is the author of four previously-published books, including on the wildlife and ecosystem of the Amazon and Pantanal region. His contribution of research for this book is the result of his completed sabbatical through Grand View University on Panthera Onca: Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal. Paul Donahue Paul Donahue is a naturalist, artist, photographer and environmentalist from California, who has been working with jaguars in the northern Pantanal since 2007.. Paul Donahue is a naturalist, artist, photographer and environmentalist from California. He has been working in the South American tropics since 1972, and with jaguars in the northern Pantanal since 2007. During that time he spent six seasons working as the jaguar biologist/naturalist for local ecotourism operators. In addition to jaguars, he has worked extensively with South American birds, conducting avifaunal surveys, recording hundreds of hours of bird vocalizations, and leading many birding trips. With his wife Teresa he has constructed rainforest canopy walkways in Peru and Costa Rica, and built dozens of canopy observation platforms. The two have also conducted many guide training workshops in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.