Nice walk on and near the Anza trail.
Get the number at the top of the log.
This is one of 6 animal tracking caches (plus one more cache called Wildlife Linkages Tracking Challenge) that were placed:
Bear Tracking, Bobcat Tracking, Mountain Lion Tracking, Wolf Tracking, Jaguar Tracking, & Coati Tracking.
You must sign the log to get credit for the find.
Wildlife Linkages Program, run by Sky Island Alliance, looks for routes Mountain Lions, Bobcats, Bears, Wolves, Jaguars, and Coatis take when they go from one mountain range to another.
The mountain ranges are linked by the routes these animals take.
The routes (linkages) are found by looking for the animals' tracks in washes between the mountain ranges.
Read more at: Sky Island Alliance [http://www.skyislandalliance.org/wildlife.htm].
At Sky Island Alliance, we go out to a transect and identify animal tracks, we don't track the animal.
Jaguar Info
This cache is dedicated to Macho B: a Jaguar that was captured in southern Arizona in February, 2009 in the Tumacacori mountains. He died 12 days later.
Size – Jaguars are the largest cat in North America, Central America, and South America. They weigh 124 to 211 pounds (lbs).
Range (where they live) – Jaguars live in Mexico, Central America and South America. Several Jaguars have been documented in southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Food (diet) – Jaguars live on deer, foxes, coyotes, snakes, turtles, frogs and small animals.
Population (how many are there?) – Unknown
Life span (how long do they live?) – Jaguars usually live 12 to 15 years in the wild.
Other information – Jaguars have black spots all over their body. The spots are of different shape on each Jaguar so if you study the spot pattern, you can tell one Jaguar from another. The jaguar can roar and makes a sound like a deep cough.
Jaguars have soft paws which help them walk quietly.
Also, they have claws that can come out when they want to climb trees or catch and hold other animals.
Jaguars are very good swimmers and climbers.
They mostly go out at night and can see 6 times better than people.
Welcome to the world of wild animals!
Follow jaguar cubs as they grow up in the rain forests of Central America.
Watch as the small cubs turn into large cats.
Two jaguar cubs are born in the rain forest of Belize.
Their mother has given birth in a well-hidden den.
The cubs are born blind and helpless.
They weigh about 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms).
One of the cubs has yellowish fur with dark spots like his mother.
The other cub has black fur.
The mother licks one cub clean while the other cub drinks milk.
(Read more in the book: A Jaguar Grows Up by Amanda Tourville; This book is in the Pima library system.)
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Read more about Jaguars at:
Jaguar -- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar
Jaguar Conservation: http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/es/jaguar_management.shtml
Jaguar: http://www.belizezoo.org/zoo/zoo/mammals/jag/jag1.html
There is a 7th cache called Wildlife Linkages Tracking Challenge.
Don't forget to get the number in each animal tracking cache under the top cover
or in the log book to find the Wildlife Linkages Tracking Challenge.
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Jaguar front track
(track is not the real size)
Real front track size is about 3 to 4 inches long and 3 to 5 inches wide.
Real rear track size is about 2.75 to 4 inches long and 2.5 to 4.5 inches wide.
The front track is larger than the rear track but the tracks are of similar shape.
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