Jaguar

After swimming - at Cuiabá River. Picture taken from a boat. I love this picture - you can see the layers of the vegetation. It's amazing how jaguars are adapted to Pantanal's environment - soon after this picture was taken, this big male guy disapeared into the vegetation. Their camouflage is perfect!

 

Facts: The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline species after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Americas. The jaguar is a threatened species and its numbers are declining. Threats include loss and fragmentation of habitat.

 

It's an emotion to photograph this animal in its habitat.

 

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