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Subject: [Leica] Jaguars - Bad Lip
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:19:58 +0530
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Nathan,
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Poor kitty! But great photos.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> > On 14 Sep 2016, at 14:01, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > This jaguar was the one we saw the most during our trip - he had
> something
> > wrong with his lip, so we christened him Bad Lip. Our local guides could
> > not recognize him, calling him a newcomer to the area - but he was a
> > seasoned old jaguar, who had seen better days, so possibly he had been
> > ejected from his territory, and landed up here. Once his path crossed
> Mick
> > Jaguar, unfortunately for us, behind some trees, but no mayhem ensued and
> > they went their own separate ways peacefully, so they presumably knew,
> and
> > likely were related to, each other. He seemed to be on the lookout for
> prey
> > every time we saw him, but he never looked well fed. One of our boats did
> > see him make attacks on two caiman within minutes, but both were
> > unsuccessful, and because tree roots and grass was between the boat and
> the
> > jaguar, the photographs were a bit obscured as well.
> >
> > Jaguars are the most aquatic of the big cats, and Bad Lip was ever ready
> to
> > take to the water:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160816-7314.jpg.html
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160817-10906.jpg.html
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160817-10994.jpg.html
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> > Otherwise, he was generally motoring down, or resting at, the waters
> edge,
> > on the lookout for prey:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160816-9856.jpg.html
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160816-7454.jpg.html
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160816-9849.jpg.html
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> > The Velvia greens were the actual colors of the scene, where he seemed to
> > be searching for, and stalking something, but we never figured out what
> it
> > was:
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160818-12780.jpg.html
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160818-12842.jpg.html
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160818-12926.jpg.html
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/
> Pantanal/untitled-20160818-12985.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Jaguars - Bad Lip)
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