Mick the jaguar stalks the banks of the river, looking for a potential target. PANTANAL, BRAZIL: The BRUTAL moment a male adult jaguar clutches an eig
Mick the jaguar stalks the banks of the river, looking for a potential target. PANTANAL, BRAZIL: The BRUTAL moment a male adult jaguar clutches an eighty-pound struggling caiman crocodile in its jaws has been captured on camera. The footage showed the 200 pound big cat, known as Mick, using its strong bite to drag the reptile away from the edge of the river bank. The crafty caiman made one last bid for freedom and successfully managed to wrestle itself from the jaguar?s jaws, scuttling away towards the safety of the water. However, Mick the jaguar soon leapt upon the caiman's back and sunk his three-inch-long fangs deep into the reptile's skull, crushing it in the process and securing his dinner. The amazing footage was captured by Abigail Martin (30) from Afton, New York, USA, who founded the Jaguar Identification Project - a non-profit organisation whose aim is to construct a database of individual jaguars in order to better understand their behaviours. Abigail captured the intense altercation from just 20 metres away in the northern Pantanal region of Brazil which is home to the highest density of jaguars in the world. The struggle lasted just under a minute before the big cat captured his , recent fires in the Pantanal jaguar corridor have meant that 600 of the estimated 2,000 jaguars living in the region have been injured or killed. / Jaguar Identification Project
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