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Article: With a spot of Luck; jaguars face good survival prospects--if we take the right conservation steps now. (Cover Story).
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- Animals
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Imagine that the 125-pound, densely muscled jaguar you have just tried to dart is raking his way down a tree. Coming straight at you, fury filling his golden eyes, he is an unstoppable force. But instead of pouncing on you, the stout yet nimble form leaps clear overhead--knocking the blowgun from your hands and bending it in half in the process. As you catch your breath, he bounds off into the thick vegetation.
It's not difficult for Alan Rabinowitz to conjure up that scene, since it actually happened to him. In fact, it was one of the first encounters that the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) field biologist had with the big cats during his groundbreaking ...