Barefaced Curassow
- one of the jaguar's favorite foods
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Find Their Food
One of the major problems facing jaguars in many parts
of their range is prey depletion, or not enough prey items
as food. In parts of the jaguar range, poaching, or illegal
hunting, of prey animals (e.g., armadillo, opossum, and
certain birds) decreases the availability of the jaguar’s
food.
To protect jaguars, a conservation plan must aim at protecting
food supplies. But which prey animals should be targeted
for special protection? To answer this, biologists must
first have a good grasp of jaguar feeding ecology, or
what it is that jaguars hunt and eat.
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