Rare Arizona Jaguar

We know that the Jaguar is a rare species in any environment or location but the very rare wild U.S. specimans have just suffered a setback after being monitored.

Reuters reports:

An extremely rare U.S. jaguar recently fitted with a satellite tracking collar was recaptured and euthanized on Monday after veterinarians found it was suffering from a terminal disease, wildlife officials said.Officials with the U.S. and Arizona wildlife services said the male cat, which was first caught on Feb. 20 in a rugged area southwest of Tucson, was found to be suffering from untreatable kidney failure."It is a sad, but appropriate course of action to euthanize this animal given the hopelessly terminal nature of his condition," Steve Spangle, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Arizona field supervisor, said in a news release.

The animal, known as "Macho B," was thought to be 15 to 16 years old. Kidney failure is a common ailment in older cats, the news release said.Jaguars roam over a vast area ranging from northern Argentina in the south to the rugged borderland wildernesses of Arizona and New Mexico, where they were thought to have vanished until two confirmed sightings in 1996. See full article.