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Lucha on the Lookout

Los Angeles Zoo - Los Angeles, California - Lucha the jaguar was born at the Philadelphia Zoo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 6/3/11 to Kanga (Mom) and Jutai (Dad). He moved to the Los Angeles Zoo on 1/14/14 and resides in the Rainforest of the Americas Exhibit.

 

His father, Jutai, was born in the wild in Belize and resides at the Philadelphia Zoo. Jutai is currently the most genetically valuable male jaguar in the North American Species Survival Plan. Lucha is his only offspring and, as such, is also genetically valuable to the captive jaguar population.

 

His mother, Kanga, passed away on 3/18/14.

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Uploaded on November 13, 2016
Taken on November 12, 2016