
Jaguars of the Northern Pantanal
Panthera Onca at the Meeting of the Waters
Description
Key Features
- Edited and supported by the Panthera organization, a leading, global non-profit dedicated to the education and protection of the world’s large cat species
- Identifies individual jaguars and family connections, following them through time and lineage
- Provides new insights on how tourism impacts jaguars and their hunting behavior
- Examines 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
Readership
Table of Contents
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: June 10, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128221389
About the Authors
Paul Brooke
Affiliations and Expertise
Paul Donahue
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
(Total rating for all reviews)
Susan B. Mon Jun 29 2020
JAGUARS OF THE NORTHERN PANTANAL Panthera onca at the Meeting of the Waters
Wildlife and ecosystem monographs are thankfully becoming more numerous. But to attempt such with a species so totally elusive and self-sufficient, whose known record of research is practically zero, requires a most unusual and unlimited tenacity and passion. Paul Brooke and Paul Donahue's book is an unusually complete work on this legendary but unstudied large cat. When a creature's habitat is thousands of miles away and where one must endure sitting for hours in mud, heat, humidity, rain and biting insects produc-ing years of blank pages in one's field book and only imaginary (or imagined?) sightings are guaranteed, obtaining the requisite data over years of the same individuals takes dedication if not total obsession. Nuanced behaviors of individual cats of all ages over time, personally observed and rigorously analyzed remains the classic backbone of this study, but so too is their invaluable method of non-invasive identification of the individual jaguars. There are hundreds of incredibly intimate photographs and drawings thus giving readers entree to the world of these spectacular felines. There is also much excitement in this brilliantly presented and, I am pleased to say, artistically rendered. It is exemplary in every way as to what is required to produce meaningful and original research. Susan Barron, Brooklyn, N.Y.