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

Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal: Panthera Onca at the Meeting of the Waters details the lives and behaviors of this subpopulation of jaguars through one-of-a-kind photographs from 26 international photographers, as well as illustrations, maps, waypoints, scientific insights, field journal excerpts and personal narratives. The book seeks to understand how locals can coexist with these cats while benefitting financially through ecotourism. Users will find this book to be a conceptual model to apply to other subpopulations in order to save jaguars throughout North and South America.

It is an ideal resource for researchers and practitioners in wildlife conservation, naturalism ecotourism and biologists.

Edited and supported by the Panthera organization, a leading, global non-profit dedicated to the education and protection of the world’s large cat speciesIdentifies individual jaguars and family connections, following them through time and lineageProvides new insights on how tourism impacts jaguars and their hunting behaviorExamines the negative perception of jaguars in the region as ranchers start to see the financial benefits of ecotourism and the poaching culture becomes increasingly taboo

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 Onça - 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