Jaguar Detectives

Category: Day by day | Date: Apr 08 2008 | By: admin

Dear friends,
Truly your forgiveness I implore by this embaracing absence, but the fact is I was so lost by the last week events. I was prepared to spend one complete month in Belo Horizonte attending the last discipline at University to complete my credits on my master degree, after that only field work, data analyses and dissertation… Unfortunately in there I was warned that would be no possible to attend classes until 24 April… Why nobody tell it by phone when I call before goes??? The experience shows that is better to not ask… Well, as my mother use to say:
- It’s done, it’s done, let’s go on…
Fortunately those who work or have experience with wildlife are blessed with a high adaptation capacity, you know or better: you never really know what will be the animal behavior! So… you need to improvise responding to the situation. In the Black-lion-tamarin Conservation Program we used to call it “Adaptive Management”… Work with threes is so much easy, they are always in the same place (well, if nobody cut off the forest…). You win some, you lose some. Here in Brazil this proverb is literally: one day is for the hunted, the other for the hunter. After all was really nice to see my advisor again and other good friends. Sixteen hours in a bus from Belo Horizonte to Presidente Prudente… reading, listen music, napping, reading, napping and so on… four hours sited in Presidente Prudente bus station and the final 100 Km until Teodoro Sampaio made in tree hours… Then, after 23 hours later I am at home again !!! It is a huge contry…
Let’s talk about happy issues, let’s talk about cats!
My friends you are great observers! You are almost ready to become “ocelotologists”!!! Indeed, there were two different ocelot’s individuals in the latest post. Now I do invite you to the next level! Bad photos are quite common and a good observer needs to use all his skills! Each single photo is precious and an important record to the final analyses that will give us the information needed to promote these species and landscape conservation.
There is:

The original photo: the ocelot across in front of the camera and it just get the picture when the ocelot was almost out of reach.

A close on the ocelot. You already have two different ocelot pictures. Can you tell if this ocelot is one of then or a third one?

A great hug from Brazil!

Cheers