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Madrean Archipelago jaguar habitats. (a) Foothills thornscrub in Río Bavispe Valley on Rancho Viejo, Municipality of Divisaderos. Photo by T. R. Van Devender. (b) Foothills thornscrub near Huépari, Municipality of San Pedro de La Cueva in April 2023. Columnar cacti are Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum. Red-and yellow-flowered trees are Fouquieria macdougalii and Parkinsonia praecox. Photo by A. L. Reina-Guerrero (c) Desert grassland-oak woodland transition on Rancho San José del Carrizo, Sierra Buenos Aires foothills, Municipality of Bacoachi. Dark shrubs are Juniperus arizonica. Photo by G. Molina-Padilla (d) oak woodland on Rancho El Aribabi, Sierra Azul, Municipality of Ímuris. Quercus emoryi is the dominant tree. Yucca madrensis is in the foreground. Photo by T. R. Van Devender.
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Jaguars (Panthera onca) have been recorded from 97 localities in 24 municipalities in the Madrean Archipelago in northeastern Sonora, Mexico, in the transition from the New World tropics to the northern temperate zone. Most jaguar localities (73%) were in foothills thornscrub, a northern tropical vegetation type. The jaguar is a tropical species th...
