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Cuiaba River
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This image celebrates International Jaguar Day.
International Jaguar Day was created to raise awareness about the increasing threats facing the jaguar and the critical conservation efforts ensuring its survival from Mexico to Argentina.
Observed annually on November 29, International Jaguar Day celebrates the Americas’ largest wild cat as an umbrella species for biodiversity conservation and an icon for sustainable development and the centuries-old cultural heritage of Central and South America.
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large felid species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico in North America, across much of Central America, and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina in South America.
It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List; and its numbers are declining. Threats include loss and fragmentation of habitat.
Overall, the jaguar is the largest native cat species of the New World and the third largest in the world. This spotted cat closely resembles the leopard, but is usually larger and sturdier. It ranges across a variety of forested and open terrains, but its preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, swamps and wooded regions.
The jaguar enjoys swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush predator at the top of the food chain. As a keystone species it plays an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating prey populations.
FUTEBOL/CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO 2023 /GREMIO X CUIABA - ESPORTES - Lance da partida entre Gremio e Cuiaba disputada na noite deste domingo, na Arena Pantanal, em Cuiabá, em partida valida pela Campeonato Brasileiro 2023. FOTO: LUCAS UEBEL/GREMIO FBPA
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
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A capybara on the shoreline of the Cuiaba River. The largest rodent in the world is very photogenic. Several of them were very close to the boat as we headed to the shore. By the end of the trip, capybaras became one my favorite animals.
I definitely don’t take enough scenery/habitat photos but the sunrise on the Cuiaba river when we went out looking for jaguars and other creatures on our Pantanal trip was just too nice to pass up. It was wonderful to start the day on a boat into the wild while looking at this.
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Cuiabana dance girl dance .... happy girl ... Do not let the popular party is over .. Turn ... turn this skirt and smile
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
While on the Cuiaba River at night, I stayed on the floating hotel called the Balsa Hotel Transpantanal. The hotel was anchored along the water’s edge next to the shore, so close you could reach out and touch the plants growing there. My cabin was located towards the side facing the shore, and I saw these butterflies resting on some leaves and thought it would be great to take some pictures. I photographed several of these unknown butterflies, and since I have been back I have been searching for the name of these on the internet to no avail, leaving me with another unknown animal.
Ger Bosma sent me an URL to a website showng this butterfly.
I do have another image closer to the one described. You can find the website information here.
www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Amazon%20-%20Riodina%20lysi...
This butterfly had been thru some hard times and a lot of the color had worn off of the wings.
Cuiaba River, Southwild Jaguar Floetel, Pantanal, Brazil - August 2018
Nikon D500, 300mm F4 PF + 1.4TCiii @ F5.6, 1/1000, ISO 2000
Unknown moth at Porto Joffre in the Pantanal, Brazil. Porto Jofre is a settlement in southern Brazil, located on the Cuiabá River in western Mato Grosso state. It is at the end of the Transpantaneira Road. The Pantanal is an immense tropical wetlands located mainly in western Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul state. Renowned for its wildlife, it's home to hundreds of species of birds, along with fauna like jaguars, caimans and capybaras. Summer rains flood the region, while the winter dry season creates plentiful lagoons.