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Cu‚llar, R.L.; Alarc¢n, D.; Pe¤a, F.; Romero-Mu¤oz, A.; Maffei, L.; Ruimz, D.; Noss, A.
Kaaiyana, a jaguar with cubs in the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco Naitonal Park, Bolivia
2012 Cat News (57): 04-06
Park guards and visitors have recently (September-December 2011) observed and photographed a very tame and calm female jaguar and her two cubs at the Estaci¢n Isoso camp in the Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park. The photographs have allowed researchers to confirm that she is the same female recorded in systematic camera-trap surveys at the same site in 2005 and 2006. During the second survey she was observed and photographed with a large cub, confirming that she has been reproductively active over a five-year period, and has evidently occupied roughly the same range. In 2006 she was also photographed in the company of a male, the only camera-trap record for Kaa-Iya of a male-female pair. The two camera-trap surveys contrast the site fidelity of this female with the apparently much higher turnover of males; only one of four males was present in both surveys that took place less than one year apart.
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