Conservation - JAGUAR RESEARCH PROJECTS

Costa Rica:
Ecology and conservation of Costa Rican white-lipped peccaries and jaguars. 
Eduardo Carrillo and Joel Saenz.

White-lipped peccaries and jaguars will be studied in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica due to their endangered status, but also because peccaries comprise a major food species for local humans and for resident jaguars. Thirty peccaries and four jaguars will be marked with radio collars to estimate survival, reproduction, seasonal home ranges, movement and activity patterns, habitat use and composition of peccary herds. Additionally, animals belonging to different peccary herds will be marked with colored and numbered ear tags to further investigate the individual exchange between herds and to help estimate natality and mortality rates. Availability of food will be correlated with the peccary and jaguar movements.