The sounds of wild jaguars growling and roaring at night in the wilderness of the Pantanal.
I've wanted to see and record jaguars in the wild for ages. Ever since my first expedition to South America in 2019 I've been researching and looking for these elusive big cats. Over the years I traveled to Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil without much luck. There was plenty to see and record on these expeditions and I never felt like I was wasting time though.
Fast forward to April 2024 when I traveled to Brazil again, this time in the Pantanal. This is the largest wetland in the world and an excellent environment for jaguars. The mix of lakes, rivers, marshes, savanna and forest is ideal for big cats and hosts large numbers of prey - deer, capybara, caimans, and of course livestock.
On this recent trip I saw plenty of jaguar tracks, and a few days into the expedition we bumped into Luciana, the local female jaguar. It looked like she was hanging out next to the river a lot, so I set up some rigs in various areas close by. She didn't seem bothered by the camera trap and even less so by my small drop rigs. From the footage and discussions with local guides it seems like she was in mating mode and had some interactions with males whose territories overlap with hers.
One of my rigs captured lovely territorial calls probably made by a male (which I will upload at a later date). I would have been extremely happy with this limited result since it's so difficult to capture jaguar calls in the wild. But it gets better. On the same night, a different drop rig captured 2 hours of roars, growls and other interactions between two individuals very close by. When I saw the spectrogram I knew what it was even before listening! Lots of low frequency energy that could have only come from a large animal like the jaguar. I was extremely pleased with myself for capturing these beautiful and rare calls, and I hope you will enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed recording them.
Recorded with Sony PCM A10 and Lom mikroUsi at Fazenda Barranco Alto in the Brazilian Pantanal. Enjoying the videos I upload on here? Feel free to support me by:
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