The cubs' first mother was a three-legged jaguar named Tania, who was born and raised in the zoo, while their father Chiki was born in the wild but grew up in a rescue center. Environmentalists brought the two jaguars into the park as part of the jaguar release plan initiated by tompkins Nature Reserve 20 1 1. With the support of National Geographic Fund, they met and mixed together.
Jaguar is listed as an "endangered species" by IUCN. According to National Geographic, this number has dropped by 40% since historical estimation. There are about 15000 wild jaguars in the world today, of which 200 live in Argentina. According to National Geographic, the goal of the plan is to increase the park population covering 34 1205 acres to at least 100 people. [Atlas: World Tiger Species]
The number of jaguars has been declining, mainly because deforestation destroys their habitats, causing their prey to die and exposing them to hunters.
Conservationists hope that as they grow up, they can learn how to hunt from their mothers, so that they can finally be released into the wild in the middle of the park. If they can't hunt by themselves, scientists will provide them with meat without touching humans. ) But on the whole, for an inexperienced mother, tania has done a good job with her unnamed baby. According to National Geographic magazine,
In a few days, environmentalists will continue to register mothers and babies who meet for the first time through remote monitoring, so that they have the opportunity to grow up naturally together without human fingerprints.
Originally published in the journal Life Science.