[Aztlan] jaguars in the Basin of Mexico

[Marcelo Donadello]

Listeros: 

Less than two cents. I understand that...

1 - There do not exist " big permanent populations " of jaguars, the jaguar is a territorial animal and each cat inhabits a big territory, except in matching time. It's exact the affirmation about they are less frequent in cold and highly populated areas. 

2- "Ocelotl" is the nahuatl equivalent for spanish tigre (tigre) or the guarani yaguar (jaguar), meaning the big feline. Guarani people calls "yaguarundi" the dark and middle sized "gato de los pajonales", and nahuatl people calls ocelotl the jaguar and ocelotl what now in the "global village dialect" is called ocelot. (For which the guaranis use the word "yaguatirica")

Pardon for my english, and I'm not zoologist, so consult your specialist ;)

Dona
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--- El dom 27-jul-08, D. M. Urquidi <deamayaspin at yahoo.com> escribió:
De: D. M. Urquidi <deamayaspin at yahoo.com>
Asunto: Re: [Aztlan] jaguars in the Basin of Mexico
Para: "Aztlan" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Fecha: domingo, 27 de julio de 2008, 11:34 pm

Folks:

THe only reason I would disagree with Richard Diehl is that Montezuma, like
most rulers around the world, had a zoo, and in that zoo, he, in the basin,
probably had one or more of the animals in question.

Dea

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--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Diehl, Richard <rdiehl at as.ua.edu> wrote:

> From: Diehl, Richard <rdiehl at as.ua.edu>

> In response to Travis's question, I do not know of any
> evidence to
> support the idea that jaguars inhabited the Basin of Mexico
> at any time
> in the past. I have always assumed it was too high, cold,
> and too
> prey-deficient to host permanent large cat populations; but
> I am not an
> expert. They range in far northern Mexico and into Arizona
> so perhaps
> they may have found a home in the Basin. Ac




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