@ccaracal-blog1 You can call me Ross! This is a big cat blog, where you'll see photographs and informational posts.
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my parents got this cutie for me as a late christmas gift, ;w;; an old european wildcat! ♥ sadly, it looks like they have beetle casings in their fur so they’ve been put in an air-tight bag and sealed away in the freezer until further notice- just to be safe u-u
Scored this pretty tom yesterday. Caught and dispatched New Years Day. Really unique pattern for a bobcat.
Will be lifesizing this boy.
SPREAD THIS SHIT LIKE WILDFIRE!!!!! 12/19/14
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this is so, so very important and tragic. especially for wild tigers and rare river dolphins.
Caracal catching sociable weaver | Southern Namibia | Paul Brehem
BFFs written by iantojonesthebetta.
( Clicking on the pictures = better quality. :) )I fixed the quality by cheating. @@I almost didn’t finish it because I started crying. :(
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I know we shouldn’t be in-fighting because we’re a small community that’s looked down upon enough as it is, but I find it really upsetting when people look down on other Vulture’s because they hunt/trap/kill animals for whatever reason.
Like, you do realize that some people live far out in the country or have no access to a walmart, and even then they don’t exactly know/like where that meat came from, right? Taking a bullet/arrow to the lung/head/heart is sure as Hell a lot faster and humane death then being hit by a heavy ass vehicle and left to bleed out on the side of the road.
Some animals NEED to be hunted to control the population. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people get shit from wolfaboos for having a wolf skull/pelt/claw whatever. Wolves aren’t angels, they CAN and DO overhunt populations of animals.
If you let deer overpopulate, that means more deer in the roads, more deer causing accidents and again, getting killed slowly and painfully in a car crash, or even killing the driver or passenger(s).
Just as long as the animal isn’t endangered and was killed with little to no pain/stress then honestly it shouldn’t be a problem.
The pictures above show Macho B, a male jaguar that was first sighted in the Baboquivari mountains by houndsman Jack Childs and was found years later in a wire snare in the Santa Rita Mountains (February 18th, 2009).
The trap was set up by a biologist from the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) named Emil McCain as part of a bear-lion study. When Macho B was found in the wire snare, the AZGFD biologists considered this a ”happy accident”. Despite many conservationists having warned against potential risks years ago, they had instantly tranquilized and radio collared Macho B while jaguars weren’t even part of the plan (note: the trap was set up originally for mountain lions and bears, or so they claimed).
Twelve days later, the department noticed that Macho B wasn’t moving as far or as frequently as they had expected him to, and after they also noticed that he was showing signs of ailments, AZGFD had recaptured Macho B and brought him to the Phoenix Zoo on March 2th. The jaguar was then there diagnosed as terminally ill from kidney failure, and government officials and veterinarians concluded that he should be euthanized.
However, it didn’t stop there. The Center for Biological Diversity called for an independent medical examination, which revealed that the jaguar’s death was at least in part due to agency mismanagement (read more about this here). While most of the information was lost for investigation due to a faulty necropsy on USFWS’ behalf, some of Macho B’s organs remained intact. A veterinary pathologist who examined the jaguar’s kidneys, but whose report was never released, told the Arizona Daily Star that the organs appeared healthy and that Macho B ”may have just suffered from dehydration”.
Investigating Macho B’s death, the Interior Department’s inspector general concluded that AZGFD did not have a permit for the capture. Moreover, the investigation also concluded that the capture was in fact intentional (view the full report here). And if that weren’t enough evidence to prove the criminal wrongdoing within the AZGFD…
In May, 2010, Emil McCain admitted in federal court that he deliberately and without a permit captured Macho B by baiting a snare set in a canyon that he knew Macho B traversed and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor crime: illegal take of an endangered species. (McCain had convinced a female co-worker named Janary Brun to plant the bait, and she was sentenced as well.) McCain said he knew there had been recent evidence a jaguar had appeared in the area of the snares as photographs of the cat had been taken near the capture site months earlier. He was sentenced to five years’ probation and fined $1,000.
Source: Border Cats
And it goes deeper than that. According to this blog run by Janary Brun, Emil McCain is claiming victimhood while at the same time admitting to ”whoring out the truth” and federal laws in exchange for being wined and dined and promised a future employment by former AZGFD biologist and current University of Arizona jaguar researcher Ron Thompson.
When McCain directed me to place jaguar scat at the BJDP cameras and near the AZGFD snare on February 4, 2009 I believed he was a legit researcher whom had permission from AZGFD, USFWS, & BJDP to attempt to capture and collar Macho B. After Macho B was collared and McCain and Childs did not correct AZGFD’s statements that Macho B’s capture was “accidental” I became suspicious. Then after I contacted Tony Davis of the AZ Daily Star to tell him Macho B’s capture was definitely not accidental and McCain’s reaction was to attack and defame my character with his words supplemented by a script his father provided, I thought I had been duped by someone I trusted. It was at this point I considered him to be some evil, master-mind. When I read the discovery of my case while preparing for trial it became clear that McCain had intent to capture and collar Macho B all on his own and this intent was encouraged and fostered directly by Thompson (AZGFD), Johnson (AZGFD), Smith (AZGFD), Childs (BJDP), and indirectly by Van Pelt (AZGFD), O’Brien (AZGFD) and Fernandez (USFWS). Now, I just view McCain as a sociopath; adamant about taking zero responsibility for his actions (he has a history of breaking laws, maiming and killing jaguars) and even incapable of viewing any wrongdoing he has done as wrong. He always chooses the victim card as his defense and his new version of that is curious as he waited years to shift blame from me as a liar to Ron Thompson as his pimp. Since he suspiciously leaves Childs out of the equation I am wondering if Childs is still of some use to McCain? Perhaps Childs is dusting off a seat at the “jaguar conservation” table for McCain when his probation is over in two years?
Source: Wrapping up
Whatever the conspiracies are about however, fact remains that twelve years after it was created, and with little else to show for its efforts, the Jaguar Conservation Team and its powerbroker the Arizona Game and Fish, had killed, for scientific purposes but absent the rigor of real science and outside the constraints of federal law, the last known wild jaguar in the United States.
