The New Orleans Audubon Zoo has brought a 7-month-old jaguar rescued from the wildlife trade. The jaguar was rescued by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Association of Zoos.
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The New Orleans Audubon Zoo has brought a 7-month-old jaguar rescued from the wildlife trade. The jaguar was rescued by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Association of Zoos.
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There’s a new jaguar at the New Orleans Audubon Zoo.
Officials announced Thursday that the 7-month-old female jaguar has been requested by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to be adopted by the Louisiana Zoo.
The zoo received the jaguar on October 14.
“This rescue effort is an incredible example of how zoos, government agencies and conservationists are working together for the greater good,” said the park’s Primate Curator. Beast Liz Wilson said in a declare.
Cubs often live with their mothers, learning how to survive and hunt, until they are two years old. They live about 23 years.
“She is adjusting well to her new environment and we can’t wait for our guests to come see her,” says Wilson, noting that the zoo has the experience and equipment to keep animals. Jaguar.
Officials from USFW asked the New Orleans Audubon Zoo to care for the cub because they had the experience and equipment to keep jaguars.
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Officials from USFW asked the New Orleans Audubon Zoo to care for the cub because they had the experience and equipment to keep jaguars.
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The spotted beauty will live in the zoo’s Jaguar Jungle, described as a “Mayan misty rainforest,” along with the zoo’s only other jaguar – a 6-year-old male named Valerio who has been moved there from the San Diego Zoo in 2017.
The exhibit also features giant anteaters, spider monkeys, macaws and Brazilian mantises among the recreated ruins.
Wilson said the zoo has added new jumping and climbing platforms to the habitat “to increase vertical space utilization” for its newest resident.
The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas (and the third largest in the world after tigers and lions) and once roamed from Argentina through Central America, Mexico and as far north as California, Arizona, New Mexico and even all of Louisiana in the US. Since 1900, the American jaguar has disappeared from more than 50% of its range, according to Los Angeles Zoo.
The population has been devastated by poaching, human-wildlife conflict, federal population control programs aimed at protecting livestock, and habitat loss. At most, the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates only about 15,000 creatures exist in the wild, according to a New Orleans Zoo report. They are considered “near threatened.”
The seven-month-old tiger cub arrived at the New Orleans Audubon Zoo on October 14. Officials said they were waiting to learn more about its personality before giving it a nickname.
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The seven-month-old tiger cub arrived at the New Orleans Audubon Zoo on October 14. Officials said they were waiting to learn more about its personality before giving it a nickname.
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In 2018, experts from the Center for Biodiversity in Arizona found that someone has kill and skin Yo’oko, a young male jaguar is one of only two jaguars known to live in the United States Researchers identified the animal based on their asterisk pattern, which is specific to each animal and gives identification of specific individuals.
In New Orleans, zoo officials have yet to name the new jaguar, saying they will wait to learn more about its personality before deciding on a nickname.
