Smithsonian: The Jaguar Freeway
Given a safe passage, jaguars will wander hundreds of miles to breed, even swimming across the Panama Canal.
Photo credit: Steve Winter
New Jersey's informal "carnivore corridors" were explored in the new book "Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State", but a dramatic real-life example is being proposed in the land of jaguars.
The pounding on my door jolts me awake. “Get up!” a voice booms. “They caught a jaguar!”
It’s 2 a.m. I stumble into my clothes, grab my gear and slip into the full-moon-lit night. Within minutes, I’m in a boat with three biologists blasting up the wide Cuiabá River in southwestern Brazil’s vast Pantanal wetlands, the boatman pushing the 115-horsepower engine full throttle. We disembark, climb into a pickup truck and bump through scrubby pastureland.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 10/22/2011 10:00 AM 
Categories: Mammals
Tags: jaguar panama canal Wild New Jersey Nature Adventures in the Garden State Wild New Jersey
Categories: Mammals
Tags: jaguar panama canal Wild New Jersey Nature Adventures in the Garden State Wild New Jersey
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