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02/03/2005 Archived Entry: "Jaguars"

Category: Mexico

Last month I was remembering out loud my visit with a jaguar in Belize.  Actually, I remember waiting up one night trying to catch one in the wild (on film, actually), but he must have caught our scent (and decided we weren't good to eat) because he never showed up.

Anyway, last weekend we went to the zoo and were able to see a couple of jaguars.  They are beautiful creatures!  The jaguar is the largest native cat in North America, but it's becoming extinct.  Most of the remaining North American jaguars are in Sonora, Mexico.  Naturalia, a non-profit company in Mexico City, purchased a ten thousand acre ranch to be used as a reserve for the jaguars.  The hope is that some of them can be reintroduced into the southern USA as well.

As you can see, my pictures didn't turn out that great.  You can see better shots of Magnum and Mia at the Calgary Zoo site.  The second picture here shows both jaguars, with the black one in the back.  I also have a shot in our photo gallery.