{"id":26284,"date":"2009-04-05T19:09:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/05\/jaguars-now-extinct-in-us\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T19:09:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:09:43","slug":"jaguars-now-extinct-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/jaguars-now-extinct-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars now extinct in US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> The federal government has opened a criminal investigation into the capture and death of the last known jaguar in the United States, amid accusations that a biologist working for the state illegally baited a trap to attract the cat.<\/p>\n<p>The 118-pound male jaguar, known as Macho B, was captured on Feb. 18 in a leg-hold snare placed by the Arizona Game and Fish Department in a rugged mountainous area southwest of Tucson. The animal, which was described in field reports as healthy and robust, was tranquilized, equipped with a radio-tracking collar and released from the trap. <\/p>\n<p>The jaguar, which was estimated to be 16 years old, was recaptured with tranquilizing darts on March 2 after wildlife personnel feared that it might be in poor health. It was flown by helicopter to the Phoenix Zoo, where a veterinarian said it had irreversible kidney failure. It was euthanized the same day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/05\/us\/05jaguar.html\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has opened a criminal investigation into the capture and death of the last known jaguar in the United States, amid accusations that a biologist working for the state illegally baited a trap to attract the cat. The 118-pound male jaguar, known as Macho B, was captured on Feb. 18 in a leg-hold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/jaguars-now-extinct-in-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jaguars now extinct in US?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6PW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}