Arizona Game and Fish confirms report of jaguar in southern Arizona

Some good news for the day. An apparently healthy male jaguar has been documented in southern Arizona. This is good news after the Macho B incident where another male jaguar, the only one known to live in the entire US, was trapped and later died due to trapping stress.  We wrote about that incident in 2010.

Arizona Game and Fish confirms report of jaguar in southern Arizona.
Arizona Game and Fish

16 thoughts on “Arizona Game and Fish confirms report of jaguar in southern Arizona

      1. A jaguar or two does not make a viable population. It would take the introduction of quite a few animals to get a genetically viable population started.

          1. I am sure that IDFG would consider this single jaguar to be a viable and robust population. 🙂

  1. The way AZ handles its wildlife doesn’t bode well for this animal. I hope it survives to healthily live its natural life-span in its own habitat… unmolested and unadulterated by humans. And I hope it is able to reproduce more of its kind to do the same.

  2. Great News! Now personally have always had the opinion that there are more of these animals out there on our borders in the southwest then we might know about. Hope the animal is not collared and it continues to roam free of any interferance of us Human Two Leggeds.

  3. The closest breeding population of jaguars is 50 miles or so South of the border. The key to recovering jaguars in the U.S. would be the creation of habitat corridors from there to here.

  4. Thanks to the hunter for doing what Arizona Game and Fish ask for in a situation like this.

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