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Remote Camera Captures Ultra-Rare Jaguar Roaming in Arizona Mountains

PetaPixel·Pesala Bandara·19 days ago
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A remote camera placed near a watering hole captured a rare wild jaguar roaming an Arizona mountain range. The sighting on the remote camera is only the fifth jaguar seen in southern Arizona in 15 years and gives conservationists hope for the species’ future. Volunteers and scientists with the University of Arizona’s Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center captured the footage in March and April. Remote camera footage shows a large adult male jaguar nicknamed Jaguar Number Five, or “Cinco,” moving through the Sky Island mountain ranges south of Tucson. The researchers had attached a camera to the base of a small tree near a watering hole. Arizona’s newest jaguar, first spotted in photos in November 2025, after wandering across the border from Mexico and later captured on video in March, is only the fifth the group has documented in the last 15 years. Since then, Cinco has been detected more than 17 times.…

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