Allison Devlin News Today

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), […]

Researchers in South America have observed two examples of never-before-seen alliances between rival male jaguars.

Fires that swept across South America's Pantanal wetlands in 2020 burned thousands of square kilometres of critical jaguar habitat and may threaten the big cats' long-term survival, new research reveals. The blazes displaced, injured or killed 45% of the region's 1,668 jaguars, the second-largest jaguar population in the world, according to the study published on Thursday in the journal Communications Biology.