Category: Science Writing

  • The River of Shining Jaguars

    The River of Shining Jaguars

    The River of Shining Jaguars “Bright-faced and jazzed, the guides radio Hurriedly: onça, onça, onça…and the jaguar Strode, wide-bodied, magnificent…” Today, I am in the northern Pantanal searching for jaguars. My boatman and I simultaneously spot two jaguars as they walk onto a fallen cambará tree—a female and her cub. I immediately recognize them as…