Roaming among humans: noteworthy records of jaguar (Panthera onca) close to human settlements in the Paraguayan Humid Chaco

• DOI: 10.32800/amz.2021.19.0197
• Publication Date: 2021-10-25T06:17:40Z
• Authors: R. Laino; K. Musalem; A. Weiler; José F. González-...
• Keywords: Jaguar; Human settlement

Jaguars (Panthera onca Linnaeus, 1758) have been extirpated from nearly 55 % of their original range in America and almost 24 Paraguay. Here we present evidence the presence jaguar close to most populated areas Paraguay, a human–dominated landscape Humid Chaco forests, highlighting how without other pressures, jaguars can inhabit densely potentially disperse between established populations.