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Title: Borderland Jaguars/Tigres De LA Frontera: Tigres De LA Frontera by David E. Brown, Carlos A. Lopez Gonzales, Carlos A. Lopez Gonzalez ISBN: 0874806968 Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Jaguar realities in the U.S.
Comment: This timely and useful book collates and summarizes in handy paperback form what is known about the northernmost population of the jaguar in the U.S. Southwest and adjoining parts of Mexico. I couldn't put the book down and recommend it highly as an authentic learning experience about the jaguar in southwest history, ecology, and culture. The authors are to be commended for undertaking such a thorough attempt to gather and assess all manner of pertinent information about this animal, past and present. In the recent era, jaguars have been in rare and marginal numbers in Arizona and New Mexico as northern outliers of a larger Mexican breeding population in northern Sonora. Currently, it doesn't look good for these nearest breeding populations--where the two lone jaguars photographed in 1996 in southeastern Arizona most likely came from. The size and structure of this nearest jaguar population (about 120 miles south of Arizona)is largely unknown scientifically and likely in serious decline now. According to the authors' survey results a continual number of animals in the population (including lactating females) are apparently still killed each year in response to livestock predation. Hopefully, improving research efforts like this will lead to a more informed public (here and in Mexico), to timely and more effective conservation measures, and a more certain future for these animals. Otherwise, we may learn all too soon that the presence of but another magnificent creature has quietly, permanently winked-out and will no longer enrich our common borderlands.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Borderland Jaguars" by D. E. Brown & C. A. L. Gonzalez
Comment: With Borderland Jaguars" David E. Brown and co-author Carlos A. Lopez Gonzalez have continued the investigative writing tradition Brown started back in 1983 with The Wolf in the Southwest" followed by The Grizzly in the Southwest" (1985).
While the previous books are considered classic references of the imbalanced struggle between man and predators in the past, the recent spectacular sightings of jaguars in the remote Baboquivari and Peloncillo mountains of Arizona have refueled the public's interest into the present status and future of tigres" north of the Mexican border.
Brown and Gonzalez show that jaguar visits from the south are not accidental events but follow a complex pattern. One important issue in this respect is the biotic communities of the borderlands providing jaguar habitat, and which are thoroughly discussed. The natural history of the jaguar is highlighted by a carefully up-dated listing of jaguars reported from Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora and Chihuahua between 1900 and 2000, many supported by photographs and behind-the-scene information from eyewitnesses. Through on-site investigations in Mexico, Brown and Gonzalez were able to locate the possible source(s) of those jaguars that periodically show up in AZ.
The ancient symbolic power, as well as the elusive beauty of the jaguar, which trigger our imagination, are omnipresent throughout this book. And, the tension and personal reports of the few lucky Arizonans, who have actually come across jaguars, make this book extremely exciting reading. Putting the reader down in a comfortable armchair in pursuit of a jaguar in an abandoned minetunnel, with only four shells and a dim flashlight, is simply not offered by regular wildlife references!
By giving attention to the large predators of the Southwest, Brown has brought us a long way, covering the Mexican wolf, the grizzly, the cougar (in a foreword for Harley Shaw's Soul Among Lions") and now the jaguar. These fine books should be considered a series, and appreciated as a totality. The concept of a jaguar reserve in Sonora as proposed by Brown and Gonzalez has set a high goal for conservation efforts. Until then, the vast majority of us will have to live with Brown's cold comfort that the thought of such a cat's presence is enough in itself".
Rating: 5
Summary: Not the usual jaguar !
Comment: Change your mental image of the big, spotted cat crouching in leafy jungle shadows and enter the world of jaguars living a hundred miles or so south of the US-Mexican border in dry, rugged mountains. "Borderland Jaguars" gives a fascinating overview of these cats: the threats by man's presence and development of its shrinking habitat, and the possibility that the animal may be threatened to the point of extinction in the region. The well-researched book includes sections about how man, from pre-hispanic times to first explorers, hunters and settlers viewed the jaguar. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in these endangered cats, and especially conservation in the borderland region.
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Title: Wild Cats of the World by Melvin E. Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist, Terry Whittaker ISBN: 0226779998 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Jaguars (The Untamed World) by Melanie Watt, E. Melanie Watt ISBN: 0817245685 Publisher: Raintree/Steck Vaughn Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $28.56 |
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Title: Cougar Attacks: Encounters of the Worst Kind by Kathy Etling ISBN: 158574221X Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Desert Puma: Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation of an Enduring Carnivore by Kenneth A. Logan, Linda L. Sweanor, Maurice G. Hornocker ISBN: 1559638672 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Cougar! by Harold P. Danz ISBN: 0804010153 Publisher: Swallow Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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