- Title: Caiman-eating jaguars survive fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands
- Date: 23rd October 2024
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- Embargoed: 6th November 2024 14:32
- Keywords: Goias Mato Grosso do Sul Pantanal alligator caiman jaguar wetlands wildfires
- Location: PORTO JOFRE, MATO GROSSO, CORUMBA, MATO GROSSO DO SUL & CORUMBA, GOIAS, BRAZIL
- City: PORTO JOFRE, MATO GROSSO, CORUMBA, MATO GROSSO DO SUL & CORUMBA, GOIAS, BRAZIL
- Country: Brazil
- Topics: Environment,South America / Central America,Nature/Wildlife
- Reuters ID: LVA002415923102024RP1
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- Story Text:Brazil's most famous jaguar, named 'Bold', is well known on social media for diving into rivers to capture caiman and wrestle his prey ashore.
Bold and some of his fellow jaguars have survived the worst fires to engulf the world's largest tropical wetlands in central-western Brazil, the Pantanal.
Unlike other animals trapped and burnt to death, jaguars know how to seek refuge on the banks of rivers where food is available in the caimans and capybaras they hunt.
Bold, or 'Ousado' in Portuguese, survived a devastating fire in 2020 when he was rescued with second degree burns to his paws, flown by helicopter to a rehabilitation center and returned to the wild one month later.
Cristina Gianni, who heads the NEX rehabilitation center for jaguars where Bold received stem cell treatment for his burns, said the Pantanal is under threat from deforestation by cattle ranchers as well as constant fires brought by climate change.
She was happy to see Bold has become a common sight for Pantanal visitors, easily identified by a leather collar he still has from his rescue four years ago.
So far this year, more than 16% of the Pantanal has burned, roughly 25,000 square km (9,650 sq miles), an area about the size of the U.S. state of Maryland.
While their biome is drying up and being burned down, turning into a cemetery for monkeys, birds, snakes and tapirs, the jaguar population has increased in recent years, according to wildlife ecologist Abbie Martin, head of the Jaguar ID Project.
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