Scientists Finally Identified What's Killing Jaguars in the Amazon — It Wasn't a Puma

The most powerful predator in the Americas has one animal on its menu that can kill it back — a toothless, ant-eating creature you've seen on a child's lunchbox. This is how the giant anteater becomes the one thing the jaguar should fear. Sources used Haddad V. Jr. et al. (2014), Wilderness & Environmental Medicine — human death caused by a giant anteater: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S108060321400115X Diet of the jaguar in the Cerrado — giant anteaters greater than 75% of diet biomass, Emas National Park (European Journal of Wildlife Research): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-013-0708-9 Kill rates and predation patterns of jaguars, southern Pantanal — 438 kills, GPS collars (Journal of Mammalogy): https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/91/3/722/846646 Music 'Horizons' by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au