August 27,
2015
After having
seen three jaguars earlier this month and two today, I got to wondering how
many different individuals I’ve seen since I first did this boat trip with Doug
Futuyma in June 2012.
I cropped
out the face of every one I had photos of and compared them over and over.
Turns out the answer is ten. Virtually every sighting has been a different
individual; the only repeat sightings I’ve had were twice where we saw the same
animal in the morning as in the afternoon (such as today) and last month when
we saw Ruth on two consecutive afternoons. There are two more animals I’ve
photographed without getting a good frontal view, so these could be repeats or
two more new ones.
Paul Donahue
was kind enough to analyze my photos and provide names for them.
Fabrice also
looked carefully at his photos from the first animal this morning and
determined that it was Mick, one that I hadn’t seen in almost two years.
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