Ambushed on the jaguar trail; hidden cameras on the Mexican border.

9781933855097

Ambushed on the jaguar trail; hidden cameras on the Mexican border.

Childs, Jack L. and Anna Mary Childs.

Treasure Chest Books

2008

151 pages

$19.95

Paperback

QL737

The Childs' founded the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project in 2001, but have been doing jaguar surveillance and research for the Arizona-New Mexico Jaguar Conservation Team since 1997. Their method is to set up hidden cameras that take photographs when triggered by motion, mostly by flash at night. Of the thousands of photographs they have taken, they present perhaps a hundred here. They were surprised to find documented that jaguars are not the central predator of the region, but a rather minor player in an ecology that includes mountain lions, bears, bobcats, javalinas, coyotes, swimming children, border guards, and hikers. They append details of the species ambushed.

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