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a jaguar in Yasuni National Park in Ecuador
March 1, 2013

Jaguar, Ecuador

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A jaguar on the hunt trips a camera trap at a spot frequented by piglike peccaries, a favorite prey. To the Waorani, one of the native groups in this area, jaguars are ancestral spirits that visit shamans in dreams to tell them where game is plentiful in the forest.

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Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic
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