Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Amazing what you can infer from watching a big cat grab a passing snack.
Climate-Change-Induced Conflict? Rare Footage Captured of Jaguar Killing Ocelot at Waterhole
By WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY JANUARY 6, 2021
In what may be a sign of climate-change-induced conflict, researchers have captured rare photographic evidence of a jaguar killing another predatory wild cat at an isolated waterhole in Guatemala.
In the footage, a male jaguar arrives near the waterhole and apparently lies in wait for an hour. It lets a potentially dangerous prey animal, a large tapir, pass by, but when the ocelot stops to drink, the jaguar pounces and carries off the smaller predator.
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“Although these predator-on-predator interactions may be rare, there may be certain instances when they become more prevalent, and one of those could be over contested water resources,” said Daniel Thornton, a WSU assistant professor and co-author on the paper. “People don’t often think of tropical systems as being dry, but in many parts of the world, tropical rains are quite seasonal, and with climate change, some of these tropical ecosystems are expected to become even more seasonal. The more isolated and rare water resources become, the more they’re going to become hotspots of activity.”
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While some research has noted signs of ocelot in jaguar feces, until now, no known images have been captured of a jaguar directly killing an ocelot.
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“We have evidence that many things are happening related to climate change, but we might not be aware of every detail, of every consequence,” said Lucy Perera-Romero, a WSU doctoral student and lead author on the study. “For example, in these beautiful, green forests, we may not be aware that water flow is a serious issue. It could be another source of mortality—apart from deforestation, from hunting, and from everything else that we do.”
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I mean, it could have been a jaguar driven to desperation by the ravages of climate change. Or it could have been a hungry big cat getting tired of waiting for a snack, grabbing the first small animal unlucky enough to pass too near.
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Yet more proof that ph.d stands for piled high and deep!
In the case of Lucy Perera-Romero, I’d say Piled Higher & Deeper
BS, MS, PhD
Bulls–t, More of the Same, Piled Higher and Deeper
I always thought is stood for Pin Head
Yes, it seems that now you can say WHATEVER THE F**K YOU WANT as long as you attach ”climate change” on the end of it. Some people will actually believe him.
This is absolutely and utterly contemptible garbage and the ”assistant proff” should be dragged and made to kneel blindfolded before a committee of science integrity and stripped of his position for all eternity for even suggesting one of the most blatantly ridiculous hypotheses in human history before he is tarred and feathered and made to crawl from town to town wearing an ”I’m a dangerous idiot” sign around his neck.
For the education of the proff…
Hyenas kill and eat lions
Lions kill and eat hyenas
Lions kill leopards
Lions kill cheetahs
Wild dogs kill tigers
Wild dogs kill hyenas
Hyenas kill whatever they can
Snakes kill crocs
crocs kill snakes
Dogs kill cats
cats kill dogs
snakes eat cats and dogs
all of these things eat humans.
Climate change?
As a matter of fact jaguars even kill crocs:
How’s that for a climate change?
You missed one Mike – his request for more funding for further ‘research’ is denied.
Then again, with the way the world has been turned upside down of late, the request just might be granted. Might help pay for the sign.
Difficult to discern where the climate change shoehorning ends and where the brainwashing begins.
They overlap completely. It is a belief that God created the world – including climate – as absolutely perfect. Any change is only for worse. In other words, we see creationism in action at Washington State.
No, this is evolutionists vs devolutionists who are, in fact, one and the same “secular” cult. Creationists know that the world is imperfect, and science (i.e. near-frame philosophy and practice) is a tool to understand and manage the chaos (“evolution”) including life. Creationists believe that the Earth is a proving ground, and their religion (i.e. moral code) is a blueprint to guide their evolution. Evolutionists, for their part, receive their religious, or rather quasi-religious (“ethical”) guidance from mortal gods.
Science removed itself utterly from philosophy when Galileo made physical theory dependent upon the verdict of observation and experiment.
Natures, essences, and axiomatic givens were left entirely behind. Science is now orthogonal to philosophy and religion.
Evolutionist and evolutionism are terms invented by believers in their attempt to lower science to the level of faith. Curiously post-modern cultural relativists have essayed the similar task of lowering science to their level of text.
Anyone who receives their behavioral guides (morals), rather than deriving them (ethics), receives them from mortal authorities, whether the recipients call themselves religious or not.
God is an empty set. It has no observables. God has only what some self-appointed authority says god has, which what includes nothing objective.
I find it curious that the almighty ‘god’ that produced the universe and everything in it did not also create whatever changes the original product.
It’s like the ‘miracle’ when someone is saved from a disaster but ‘god’ had nothing to do with creating the disaster.
The jaguar doesn’t look underfed, so the claim that it’s feeding on the ocelot because it is desperate doesn’t stand up.
Predators hiding near watering holes to nab a snack is as old as predators and watering holes.
…and the tapir wasn’t competing for the water hole
it’s one thing to be the idiot that wrote this….it’s another to have to read it
Who are you quoting or paraphrasing, Latitude?
Maybe the jaguar just likes the taste of ocelot. Like a hot fudge sundae with crushed nuts.
How do you know the ocelot was a male ?
This is, of course, complete, unadulterated climate carp. It’s just about a larger predator eating a smaller one – who’d have thunk? I recall many years ago seeing a BBC documentary about tigers in India and, guess what?, the film-makers saw a tiger had half-eaten a leopard which they had previously filmed very much alive and healthy. No AGW inference was made (but of course it would now – the BBC wouldn’t miss that one).
All sorts of predators – from a wide range of families from fish to mammals – have even been observed eating their own kind. They ain’t that fussy when easy food is available.
Yeah, I saw that documentary too. It was really good, and quite the eye-opener. The tiger was traveling with two cubs, one had some kind of injury and was lost to the cameramen but, when they followed the mother and the remaining cub into territory with the leopard, yes the tiger killed the leopard. The conclusion was that she wasn’t taking any chances on the leopard killing her cub. Sounds plausible.
they did it on all jurassic park movies too…
I should also add Ian, that after the word mammals, you could have added “(including humans)”. It was called “long pig”. Maybe it still is?
Writing such BS is Climate Change based.
Challenge of idiot-award continues 😀
Only climate agenda AI with high speed computers can keep up with all the climate scare combinations at this point in the Climate Crusades.
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
Computer Says: Climate Change
At least it is Artificial reasoning but it is far from Intelligent
ROFL 🙂
Where there is artificial intelligence, there also must be artificial stupidity. Society being what it is, one expects instances of the latter to out number the former.
This article is full of things that I love: climate change linked to BS, hyphenated names, woke Latina (Latinx) PhD student that came from 3rd World Country (TM) using funds from her rich family.
Law of jungle been around a bit longer than the AGW scientists.
OMG.!
Next thing you know, dogs will be chasing cats..
All because of climate change !!!
And the mouse ran up the clock. A scientific myth that asserts identity. Dogs don’t chase cats don’t chase mice. That said, save a bird, whack a wind turbine.
beagle next door likes (liked?) to chase cats. he’s stopped with mine since one of mine turned on him hard.
….. and living together too:
climate change- the new Great Satan
And cats will be suing big oil with the help of the NRDC and Sierra Club with help from the Trial Lawyers Association.
Lions kill cheetahs, in Africa. The theory was that lions and cheetahs compete for the same prey. But now, I’ll bet this happens because of climate change.
I’m surprised that the folks at WSU failed to see the other evidence of desperation due to AGW- the ocelot, desperate for resources, obviously committed suicide by jaguar. Lucy in particular should have seen that “detail”, she knows the evidence is all around her.
HHHMMMM a top of the food chain predator catches kills a predator farther down the food chain and it is all due to climate change. That is about the dumbest idea I have heard today. Predators will almost always catch kill and and eat a lesser predator that can compete with them for the resources. This is as old as time itself.
Donate to World Walrus Foundation. Together, we can teach jaguars to eat Greens….
But veganism is a first-order forcing of [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] climate cooling… warming… change. Flatulence is far and away the greater source of a potent greenhouse gas and environmental pollution.
A friend’s dog, “Bear”, did the same thing when another smaller dog started raiding Bear’s food on a regular basis. Bear wasn’t starving, but he lay in wait for the smaller dog to appear, and then killed him with a bite to the neck. This is how nature works, and it’s no surprise that the same folks who deny natural climate change also deny that this kind of attack happens all the time regardless of wether or not resources are readily available.
An opportunist took advantage of an opportunity, well bless my cotton socks
Foolish obsevers overlook the fact that tapirs are herbivores that spend inordinate time foraging &, as such, have evolved an extremely thick neck to prevent predators from catching hold of them for bringing down while they feed. Jaguars are feline predators that hunt by tackling the neck. Unlike the observers, the O.P. jaguar apparently knew it was wasting it’s stake out time & energy resources on any tapir since more reliable prey would come to the water.
Some WUWT commentators might be inclined to think the jaguar passed on the tapir because it, being a vegan, tastes less savory than the carnivor oscelot. I can’t assess the validity of that opinion, but it may be true according to the chauvinist quip in Spanish about skinny women : “El sabor es en los huesos” (the flavor is in the bones).
I know it’s funny to snipe at this stuff, but really, my God what will happen if this kind of nonsense continues. And it’s growing bolder. There are actually people walking around with Ph.D. credentials who are nothing more than hucksters milking the ignorance of the government and general populous. This is disastrously confounding to the advancement of knowledge. Nothing will pass without redoubled investigations. This conclusion is obviously false, but what of the more subtle and intricate phenomenon. It’s awful.
OT..
Alps free of snow 6000 years ago.
https://notrickszone.com/2021/01/06/very-inconvenient-alps-glacier-history-top-glaciologists-alps-were-ice-free-6000-years-ago/
Must have because of jaguars eating smaller animals or something
(see how I brought it back on topic 😉 )
Record Cold in Spain
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/record-low-temperature-in-spain-today/
That’ll force the jaguars to do .. something… not sure what yet, until they do it… !
Or it could be that ocelots are more of a delicacy than tapirs. Perhaps the authors of this detritus could go ask the jaguar.
Jaggy wanted a snack, rather than paying for a 3 course meal.
Jaguars are such cute and cuddly animals
Just like polar bears
Competition for dwindling water sources? Yeah, that’s the ticket when the jaguar bypassed a larger, more dangerous potential rival for water. She’s getting her PhD in B.S. Speculation. From her ending quote, humans must stop doing everything.
Food is food. Why would a jaguar hesitate to take out an ocelot if it found that it had the drop on the other? There is no professional courtesy in nature. Who do they think takes out the ocelots, hawks? More likely it is boas and larger cats.
they have never seen my small house cats eye me if I start breathing funny. predator kills and eats predator….
I expect the BBC will be all over this, but then, they missed an opportunity to link this piece of predator-on-predator action to climate change.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26413101
I guess the Asia desk hadn’t read the memo back then.