The Debate Over Reintroducing Jaguars to North America

And when are they going to consider letting you back out?

@@DailyCorvid We keep telling the city dont let the Jaguar guy out but they just wont listen

Lol. That's hilarious. Thank you for that.😂

What a jag off

Haaaaa

Work the steps brother.

California…send this man his money!!

Keep your head up king!

When I went to the monkey temple in Cusco Peru I saw a Jaguar skull shimmering in the rock. The shaman said my spirit is a Jaguar. The gods- they chose me, and I didn't even graduate from fuckin high school

As a Wal-Mart bag, kkksshhhshskskhsh. Hssshshskkshkhshksh. Kksshskshkksshhh.

Too much peyote the night before

There’s definitely jags down there

@@ChrisRJ animals migrate and try finding new territories just like humans. Just cause we removed lots of their natural habitats doesn’t mean 1-2 can’t sometimes make it back. Nature always finds a way

@@ChrisRJThat area is known to have jaguars

Alot of jaguars are in mexico

Yea, and the other guy kind of had an idea. Its actually in Nebraska.

Jaguars were extirpated by ranchers and poachers. Jaguars would still be thriving had the US been more tolerant. Additionally, the border wall made matters worse.

@@puapucuve6643jaguars are a fascinating animal. Unlike other apex predators they do not go after easy prey. Ranchers in Brazil were killing them left and right fearful that they would attack their cattle but stopped once they saw that a Jaguar would rather hunt a caiman in the water than go after a cattle. Also where there’s cattle there’s people and Jaguars try to avoid human interaction. They reintroduced the Jaguar to Argentina and Ranchers were also fearful but the Jaguar is thriving and cattle ranchers have nothing to worry about. I think same would happen in the US.

Someone just found a Jaguar near the southern border in Arizona

@@birdman007 just saw this on youtube

@@dariog36th I'd feel much safer around Jaguars than Mountain Lions.

Do Jaguars have fully webbed paws? Because I read and saw that fishing cats also have partially webbed paws

Tigers technically do too

Alot of cats do, jaguars are just more popular, there's some small but lethal wild cats with webbed feet out there, you can search fishing cat and there's another I'm forgetting right now but it's in the same family so should be easy enough to find info about if you really wanted to know

Tigers have webbed paws

Good thing you didn’t find one lol

Your making this Jaguar sound like fucking Johnny Cash.

Player ass jaguar

Nice

Last Jaguar in America dipped to smash spicy latina jaguars, gotit.

@@AtibaVV Can you blame em? Ahh those spicy latina jaguarsa they're the best type of pussy to unleash upon unsuspecting couples making their homes. Lol to the sound of porn music :D

Jaguar don't see human as prey. In India and Africa people just pass by from their side and they do nothing.

@@emani2704 there's no jaguars in India or Africa.

I've seen bear and mountain lion in Colorado like that. Just chilling outside a 7-11.

Sounds racist

More likely it will be a Tiger

That’s just about crazy enough to work

Until they start eating live stock

@@malcolmkeith816there’s so much boar I doubt them eating livestock would be a problem.

I think wolves would be a better idea: the hogs could swarm & jaguars could get stealthy & eat someone’s kid (jumping fences, hiding in culverts or under cars, etc…).

That’s a good point. And bears. Texas doesn’t haven’t bears correct?

Dude, during Pleistocene Jaguars lived even in Europe. They can adapt to different environments

Nah, Jaguars used to be far more widespread across the Americas, about as much if not more so than the Puma.

​@@sauron6977 You're thinking of Leopards. Jaguars and their extinct relatives are exclusively new world cats.

Pumas/cougers just need forests and a lack of human development because they require large ranges to get enough calories. In Canada and the US, those regions where there are both forests and a low human population density just happen to be in mountainous regions.

@@sauron6977 there was never Jaguars in Europe, you’re thinking of Leopards or Lions, both of which did in fact live in Europe not too long ago. Along with Hyenas too

😂

Thank god uncle finger bang isn’t there anymore

Wait until they hear about Lions

Shit, Bengals might be taking over the world

Hell the panthers may have a chance 😂

The steel traps disgust me. I come from a family of hunters and outdoorsmen and i totally have no issues with responsible hunting. My grandfather has a large trophy room full of mounts from hunts. I grew up on a lot of local venison, moose, fish etc but the whole bear trap thing i always had an issue with. That's just cruelty and a bitch move on the hunter. We have enough advantages as is. Anyways, I agree. We should do our best to preserve what is there and endangered though it does sound cool i dont think anyone should do this

Sooo quick question, if wildlife doesn't need to be managed..then why would you have to reintroduce them anywhere ever? Asking for a friend

@@LucasJackson_37 we killed most of the Buffaloes 🐃 manage that?

​@@clifford_2zero7 Completely agree. Responsible hunting of game as you pointed out is perfectly fine in my book. And managing species in dense human populated areas I can understand. Just not out in the complete wilderness 10s if not 100s of miles away from a major population center. And yep, let's focus on what's here rather than what isn't.

@@LucasJackson_37 I didn't say wildlife shouldn't be managed at all without any exceptions. Read it again.

I was looking for this comment

Lol… this that comment …🤣

Lol😂

My favorite North American Jaguar is of the Fred Taylor genus.

🐐

These are the conversations when he is earning that lucrative contract he signed.

@@Ezekial2517 Did you notice you're not speaking English?

​@@JGunit who

@@JGunit did you notice you translate English into Vietnamese?

Look up “Joe Rogan asks Elon Musk HARD Questions about Cobalt Mining for TESLA Batteries!” thank me later 🙏

Honestly would love to visit east Tennessee, from Memphis

@@dark12ain You're more than welcome to visit this end of the state some time. The mountains are great. Altitude affects attitude.

Ideally, we would introduce red wolves back into the Appalachian region as well as go for more progress that boost Bob cat populations.

@@themotions5967 Yes the red wolves would help.

Same here in West Virginia we could really use the cougar tbh cuz the deer here are making Ton of car crashes and the coyote here don’t have a predator other than a black bear but it never happens

Unless you find some planets here on Earth, they are ALL Exo!

@@DailyCorvid exoplanets means a planet outside our solar system

whether*

sir, you're not supposed to drink the bong water!

@@DailyCorvid no

But Ohio has more than enough already

@@N0RZC i think you're talking about cougars. 😂

Nah you already have bears.

You already have a Mayor.....could be part cougar , part possum ....nobody knows what that thing is

I believe you and your tribe more than any animal conservation organization

That’s fascinating! Is there anywhere we can go to look into your tribes stories and hear them?

There are still a select few down in Jacksonville I believe. No one had seen any in a couple years since Tom Brady scared them away. Heard they might be making a run here tho

Yes! I've heard about jaguars being in the mountains AND some one told Me they saw a black panther in Florida

They'res already reports saying they saw them as far south as Florida

I too am magine.

Stuff like that rarely if ever works. Doesnt work here in Sweden with both pigs and wolves on the rise.

@@_lowpoke700 bobs and magine?

@@yeahbee8237 That’s interesting. I wonder where it went wrong. Are the wolves too far north in the cold to overlap with the pigs?

florida still is trying to bring back the fl cougar. we have everything including monkeys.and bald eagles are abundant...just missing wolves..

I think that's something of a poor comparison considering a T-rex likely couldn't sustain itself anywhere in the modern world based on need for food alone. Between feral hogs and large cervid populations, a jaguar could thrive in several ecosystems across the US.

The problem with "Recovery" is the tendency towards "Shoot, Shovel, and STFU!" The moment the introduced Jaguars or Grizzlies or whatever start taking pets or livestock they are going to start getting discreetly "Disappeared" AGAIN. Louisiana has black bears, black bears make A habit of avoiding people here which is why you can spend a lot of time in the woods in Louisiana and never see one.

Grizzlies area native to LA. Only black bears. Jaguars are native to Southern Texas & Arizna region. They were just killed off by ranchers. Just like Bison were almost killed off during the late 1800's.

Less is more, simpler the better, mo money mo problems, keep it simple, moderation is key, so many similar messages about life can't be brushed aside, we really gotta be cautious, lots of small problems could snowball, the optimal way you see in nature every day.

So yo go listen up! It's nice we're surrounded by human creations, artistic examples could even be in the intricate details in a construction screw, or the lay out of public parks. The thing is though, earth sustains us, not a paper paint picture drawing of earth. Especially because that paper most likely had to tear down an area of habitat for earth and all her living beings.

My grandfather in Honduras, who was born in 1928, told me that when he would go hunting for deer, jaguars kept to themselves. He said that once in a while, he could hear them growl early in the morning.

Actually, he was trying to make them able to survive in the wild since they were raised in private zoo, and they used a piece of land in private hunting farm in South Africa and after they were able to hunt on their own, they wanted to reintroduce them to India. At the end of it the were happy to see them being able to hunt a deer on their own but they still wanted to make them afraid of humans

One of them made it all the way to Connecticut where it was hit by a car. Just like you said a lone male that just kept going

Im curious how did the tracking device lead to the animals death? Thanks for sharing.

@@xavierlehew6746 the stress of capture combined with improperly dosed tranquilizers caused kidney failure apparently

@@brians7901 Much appreciated.

@@brians7901 el jefe was very old. I do not doubt the sedatives and stress could have caused him trouble.

Did you swing across the trees in tighty whiteys, too?

Im pretty sure that didnt happen

@@matchdust7049 it did happen. I was the Jaguar mom.

This mf better be joking bc nobody is buying that bs

Oh how wonderful is that, reunited! Good for you two im so happy for you

Unlike leopards and even cougars there are only a few recorded attacks on humans from Jaguars. For whatever reasons they don't attack humans often.

there is also trail cam evidence of Jaguars living in the US including Tennessee

last time i checked there were only jaguar sightings in Arizonia and that may just be one male and teher are none in TX NM AND C

Yeah but in such small populations that it's still considered a myth

@@EJ_D._Kiddnot even a population just solitary males

I went to a park on the Argentina/Brazil border and they had a warning sign to be careful of both Jaguars and Pumas

You summoned him man.

@@aszassiin go away beta boy

@@DManLewis1 lol he thinks he's really doing something hiding in his mom's basement

That's absolutely right.... I was raised on a ranch outside of San Saba, TX. There were many sightings of a jaguar on the San Saba River. This was in the 80's

I have heard! There are reports of them from Ohio down into Missouri and Kentucky. They ARE here.. Black Jaguars.

Are you sure its not a black mountain lion? Similar to the panther jaguar distinction.

@@TheGenius2015 Do cougars even have the gene the for that mutation? I've never heard of an all black one, tho I do suppose it's possible.

@Coleman Monler I grew up not to far away on the other side of New Straitsville and have heard stories of big cats in the area and into Wayne National Forest.

The government says the black cats, grass men and dogmen are not real. You are doing too much thinking and not enough working. The government would never lie to us

And we need more moose, wolves, and bear at the Northern Border. Canooks take our jobs too. I don’t see their kids being detained at the Northern border. It’s just prejudiced to exclude the brown people from the Southern Border. Have you counted how many undocumented Ukrainians, and Russians live in Florida today? Spain built missions, (example the Alamo, it belonged to the Mexicans whites invaded the Alamo first) and they owned Texas. Long before the Germans came here to settle. Lately I see a lot more Indian, Nepalese, Lebanese, Vietnamese, and Filipinos moving to Texas. They just fly in.

Sounds good to an airhead. They won't do anything to migrating people. All you'll have is a larger subset of wild cats crossing other US states.

@@HammerLeaf even of those people are killers and drug dealers ??

@@HammerLeaf people who will risk their children’s life instead of entering how they’re supposed to?

@Melting Pot you're right, we ought to extend the range of polar bears to the northern border, the great white shark population around florida and figure out a way to create dragons and have them patrol the skies as well.

we have jaguars here in Fresno, CA?

Maybe just allow him a night's sleep before he turns up;)

Yes

Its awesome when they roar in spanish

@@michaeltabanao9014 do they roll their R's properly ?

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@@zlatkojerkovic9456 You mean a Jaguarrrrr?

Damn maybe reintroducing these could help curb the illegal immigration I hate to say lol

@@cosmokramer1035 lol I was thinking that, but afraid to say it XD

literally was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else thought that too

@@cosmokramer1035 those bean people would just shoot them. They have no respect for life

Fuck the ranches, give animals back their turf.

What about peoples pets 😭😭

@@VibeWithLuna with an abundant food source like wild pigs, jags wouldn’t likely risk their life for some 40lb dog or scrawny house cat unless it was starving

Jaguar don't see human as prey. They likes to stay far from human habitat. In India and Africa people just pass by from their side and they do nothing.

Unintended consequences 🤔....like Hawaiian Mongoose and Rat 🐀 🙄. Be beneficial for awhile, then the slower cattle, pets, chickens 🐔 and easier prey will be taken down. Then it will be like a South Park Episode, against the Cats 🐈

@@emani2704 jaguars only live in the Americas. If it’s africa and india, they’re leopards. They look similar, but are a seperate species

And by eight different sightings, I mean 8 different Jaguars.

Naturally

Good topic. They should put some Jaguars out in Florida with collars on.

One of the best things to come from JRE is Steve and his Org's popularity. He's a godsend for the outdoor community. Without meateater, we'd be left with the trash private land/high fence hunter culture that was prevalent in the late 90's-00's.

I hate this guys voice

Wow. I grew up in DFW most my life. Had heard of the Ocelot's still out there thought to be extinct if I'm remembering correctly. Didn't know Jaguars or Panthers were more than just an oddball incident. Just thought Mountain Lions / Cougars would be the only big cat. Only Jaguar I saw was at the Ft. Worth Zoo lol stalking the fence line like an agitated killing machine.

Hersay bvll crap. Just stop, dude!

We have an unknown population of large cats in the UK which is all but confirmed. They're believed to have been pets/escaped from zoos or circuses when they still used animals. Totally out of place here.

Amazing animal but people aren’t going to want to have them around their kids

Amazing animal but people aren’t going to want to have them around their kids

Thank you!

There Is black panthers in Florida I’ve seen one first hand ✋🏻

As a Floridian I can relate. Gators, snakes, and sharks aren’t your worst problem. They’re dumb and lazy. The insects are what finds you every single time. They are super aggressive and omnipresent

We are talking about 8 ft long cats pinching you off the street. And you come in with BUGS? *Ever heard of catnip* ? Lol. I would sooner take on every bug in New York at once, than a single Jaguar on a dark night.

@@DailyCorvid Up in maine, not being able to take a walk in the woods without being covered head to toe in ticks, with mosquitos and black flies constantly trying to kamakazi into my eyeballs, give me a clean death by jaguar over a crippled life from lyme disease

@@James-uk4xi Yeah try living in the marshlands of England mate, trust me a few ticks doesn't even wobble the dial. Use scent oils, bugs cannot bear it they won't hang about where that scent is. I like mixing them up, so if you 100% want bugs to avoid going near you - use lavender or catnip and mint oils. They react to that the way you would react to finding a large dollop of dogpoop on your porch. Move away quickly! :)

@@James-uk4xi exactly 😆

No they didn't

Heard the same about Texas's TXPWD shipping panthers to north central TX attempting to control hogs.

I’ve heard of some black bear sightings in the Uvalde area

you are thinking of an ocelot

Dale Lee killed an Onza once, it’s a similar animal to the jaguar.

hunters and animals didnt blend well,hunters are all about profit .

Curse him

There slicker than mountain lions 🦁 😳......

Jaguar are my favorite cat by far, and so few people really know how big they are and what they can physically do. This isn't like reintroducing wolves where there's going to be some occasional but preventable livestock predation.

@@Xynth25 honestly, they might do some good in Florida, they’ll murder a lot of the big invasive species like pythons.

I like it when Latinas say papi haha.

if you know, you know.

El jefe is a Jaguar that’s been spotted it’s on KZhead

@@thaddeusgiles4024 thank you lol

It's called barbed wire.

Durrrrrrrr

I'm on the Platte River its right in my backyard in Nebraska. We had a 500 year flood a couple years ago it was nuts.

10500 miles huh? I think the continental us is like 2600 miles wides so 10500 miles east of the rockies would put you on a different continent like India? 🤷‍♀️

@@jacktrout5807 Thanks, didn't see the extra 0 in there. Should've been 1,050

@@Ivantheterrible495 Just letting you know, they shadowbanned your comment, because you used the O word, you can see it because it's your comment and I can see it in my notifications, but nobody else. Which is ridiculous, how are you supposed to refer to someone who weighs significantly more than average.

Nope! Humans aren't that important lol. We keep taking animals off the map all you're gonna have left is a zoo.

All these limp wrist city creatures pooping their pants makes me want to bring Jags back even more 😂

Lmao they don't hunt gators if they've got other small game to go after, same with pythons most likely, we can take care of the pythons if they keep paying hunters well

Release them at the border…

@@thealternative9580 lol!

@@Gibbypastrami The Jags in the Amazon take down and eat massive Caiman which are basically a Brazilian alligator. They go after those just as much as small game like capybaras. There's not much deer around there in heavily swampy areas. A Jaguar in the Florida everglades would annihilate the invasive snakes and definitely take down some gators. The FL Panther population lives furthest west in forested pine areas where there is a lot of game for them to eat like Deer.

@@Gibbypastrami yup what wildcatz said, they actually prefer to hunt capybaras and caiman, they even hunt anacondas which get much larger than pythons so pythons would be easy work for them. As for the gators, although the Brazilian caiman can get quite large, the gators in Florida are overall quite a bit larger when it comes to full grown size, however I don’t know if that will matter much as Jaguars go for the killing blow by pouncing from behind and biting into the skulls of their prey, besides they would hunt smaller ones and leave the bigger ones for hunters to take care of

Look up the Matsès tribe known as the Jaguar People of the Amazon. Very interesting how they want to Live like Jags🐆

Texas has a huge wild boar population

​@@Pietotheskyit also has a lot of absolute lunatics with guns

@@tomarze2071lol and try to tell texans not to shoot something, even if its for ecological benefit

There’s only one state on the border that probably can support a small population. Arizona can’t, they have the almost excited Mexican Wolf population that roams the lands that the cats would immediately move into. New Mexico could. No major alpha predators to worry about. West Texas maybe, if you could convince the cattle farmers to deal with the thought of a cat with the bite to bring down a whole cow.

@@superstro2225 I don't know Texas has more tigers than there are wild ones left in the world. Texans might be all for it.