Fox News - Fair & Balanced

Jaguarundi

RelatedTopics

  1. Endangered Species
  2. Domestic Cat
  3. Olympics Swimming
  4. Endangered Species Act
  5. Lizard
  6. Wildcat
Get updates on Jaguarundi
The search for jaguars: Tracking and filming elusive cats a passion for Venezuelan biologist

GUATOPO NATIONAL PARK, Venezuela (AP) — The search begins where a dirt road ends, in a forest festooned with vines and filled with the chatter of trilling birds. This is the realm of jaguars, and a young biologist has made it her mission to find them.Emiliana Isasi-Catala wades through a creek and moves nimbly through the foliage, scanning the dark earth covered with fallen leaves for the distinctive round toes of jaguar tracks and the faint trails of smaller animals they prey on: agoutis, tapirs, peccaries and armadillos."A track. It looks like jaguar," she exclaims, while climbing a steep slope. Squatting to examine the swipe of bare earth, she concludes a big cat was moving downhill and slipped a little. She speaks into her audio recorder: "Signs of a feline. Let's see if we find more tracks up there."Isasi-Catala, 32, is carrying out the first study in Venezuela to use cameras equipped with motion sensors to estimate the size of a jaguar population. So far, her results have yielded...

Read More ›

  1. Obituaries in the News

    Obituaries in the NewsMonday, March 24, 2008By The Associated PressE-Mail Print Share: Digg Facebook StumbleUponNeil AspinallNEW YORK (AP) _ Neil Aspinall, a longtim...

  2. Environmentalists: Border Fence Would Threaten Rio Grande Wildlife

    Environmentalists: Border Fence Would Threaten Rio Grande WildlifeMonday, May 21, 2007PrintNancy Brown drives the government truck slowly past mossy ponds, thick shr...

  3. Its future uncertain, barrier on the border going up quickly

    Its future uncertain, barrier on the border going up quicklyMonday, April 28, 2008By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:WASHINGTON —  The U.S...

  1. Bush Administration to Waive 30-Plus Laws, Regulations to Build 267 Miles of Border Fence

    Bush Administration to Waive 30-Plus Laws, Regulations to Build 267 Miles of Border FenceTuesday, April 01, 2008PrintWASHINGTON —  The Bush administration plans to u...

  2. Supreme Court Turns Back Environment Groups' Attempt to Block Border Fence

    Supreme Court Turns Back Environment Groups' Attempt to Block Border FenceMonday, June 23, 2008PrintWASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a plea by e...

  3. Bush Administration to Issue Waivers to Build U.S.-Mexico Border Fence

    Bush Administration to Issue Waivers to Build U.S.-Mexico Border FenceWednesday, April 02, 2008Print APApril 1: Migrants walk toward the U.S.-Mexico border wall on t...

  4. Feds acknowledge fence will hamper border life

    Feds acknowledge fence will hamper border lifeTuesday, July 15, 2008By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:McALLEN, Texas —  The U.S.-Mexi...

  5. Court OK's border fence despite environmental worry

    Court OK's border fence despite environmental worryMonday, June 23, 2008By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court...

  6. Next battle over border fence may be Texas

    Next battle over border fence may be TexasTuesday, June 24, 2008By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:McALLEN, Texas —  A U.S. Supreme Co...

  7. Rules to Be Waived for Border Fence

    Rules to Be Waived for Border FenceTuesday, April 01, 2008By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share: Digg Facebook StumbleUponWASHINGTON —  The B...