Comments on: New Jaguar Sighted in Arizona

By: airgunner

airgunner — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:42:31 +0000

I have spent the bulk of the past three years working in SW New Mexico. This jag in Arizona is far from the only jaguar in the United States. He is only the latest one documented with a photograph.

Fortunately, these cats are occasionally observed. While I was never so fortunate as to have seen one, many of my co-workers have, including one who spotted a jaguar while walking his dog in a residential neighborhood.

I have also heard first-hand accounts of encounters with melanistic jaguars.

Even the much-discussed border fence has gaps in it to allow passage of these great cats.

By: Cryptoraptor

Cryptoraptor — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:28:50 +0000

Choppedlow,

“The most fragile ecosystems in our country are now dumps, and no one even talks about it.”

No one talks about it because there would be potentially very harmful racist labels thrown at any public official who would publicly mention such things.

Even you felt a need to couch your statements by mentioning that you are Hispanic.

By: WeirdTwist.com

WeirdTwist.com — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:13:05 +0000

I agree this is totally exciting. Here’s what gets me. This guy is mountain lion hunting with his 10 year old daughter. Then he spies a treed Jag and, instead of getting his daughter the heck out of there, he pulls out his camera.

By: choppedlow

choppedlow — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:26:03 +0000

This is so exciting, but sad at the same time. Just like everything else that deals with the (southern) wilderness in our state, it is turning into a trash dump from the illegals. South of Tucson, the desert has an estimated 2000 metric tons of trash alone (8 ponds of trash left on average per illegal). We were hunting Mt Lions in the southeastern part of the state, and was told by the border patrol to “play it safe, hunt anywhere but here, and be armed”. Sad. The most fragile ecosystems in our country are now dumps, and no one even talks about it. I know this is about a Jaguar in our state, and I know of one person who glassed one, but the animals in our state like the Mules, Javalina, Bear, and even the Mt Lion have been forced out of their territories by tens of thousands of people who give zero thought to the creatures who rely on the land. And for those who think there might be a Bigfoot or two roaming the forests and low lands of Southern Arizona, I think at least one of the 200,000 people who sneak across per year would have had an encounter. And that would spark a rumor amongst them that would spread faster than the 20 wildfires they set already! (PS, Im Hispanic, but I’m American!)