A rare sighting of a jaguar and an ocelot together. From Onçafari:
The fire destroys the vegetation, and animals have difficulty finding places to shelter. At our base in the southern Pantanal, we found many jaguars trying to protect themselves in manholes, as these are cooler places.
The males Divino and Timbur were found sharing one of these manholes. Later, one of them moved to a nearby manhole where a [ocelot] was already present. In their struggle for survival, they growled at each other but soon calmed down, as if establishing a "peace agreement" between prey and predator.
Despite the rains that have arrived in the southern Pantanal, the peak of the dry season in the biome occurs in September and October. Thus, there is great concern that this ear's fire season may surpass that of 2020, which left a trail of environmental destruction with over 17 million animals killed.
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