re: Welp, the jaguars are here. We are all going to die.

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Not to be the party pooper, but this jaguar is known to have been in the area for years. It's part of their natural range, they're just very rare, especially so far north.

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True. However, the conservation folks were starting a serious shite storm a few years back when they tried to put tighter environmental and/or hunting restrictions in many of those areas around Tucson because of that one cat.

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but this jaguar is known to have been in the area for years. It's part of their natural range, they're just very rare, especially so far north.

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Thanks, I just learned something. From 2005,

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For four years, camera traps operated by the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project, based in Amado, Arizona, have documented two jaguars in these high, arid washes. They may have caught a third animal on film—the cat appears differently patterned than the others. If it is a female, it would be the first one known in the United States in 40 years. It's possible the cats were here all along, unnoticed, or they may be visitors from Mexico. It's also possible that jaguars are returning to—and breeding in—the United States.

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