Table 1. Jaguar prey species identified through two main methods, kills found at GPS location clusters of 10 radio-collared jaguars, and prey remains found in 125 scats.

November 2001 to April 2004, southern Pantanal, Brazil.

		Kills		Scats
		n = 431		n = 153
Prey species		Total	%	Total	%
Cattle	Bos taurus	135	31.32	55	35.95
Caiman	Caiman yacare	107	24.83	24	15.69
Peccaries*	Tayassu pecari/Pecari tajacu	93	21.58	30	19.61
Feral hog	Sus scrofa	17	3.94	1	0.65
Marsh deer	Blastocerus dichotomus	16	3.71	1	0.65
Giant anteater	Myrmecophaga tridactyla	13	3.02	2	1.31
Capybara	Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris	9	2.09	5	3.27
Lesser anteater	Tamandua tetradactyla	7	1.62	7	4.58
Armadillos*	Dasypus novemcinctus/Euphractus sexcinctus	6	1.39	1	0.65
Deer*	Mazamasp./Ozotoceros bezoarticus	6	1.39	6	3.92
Coati	Nasua nasua	5	1.16	5	3.27
Maned wolf	Chrysocyon brachyurus	3	0.70	-	-
Crab-eating fox	Cerdocyon thous	3	0.70	-	-
Raccoon	Procyon cancrivorus	3	0.70	3	1.96
Tapir	Tapirus terrestris	2	0.46	-	-
Capuchin monkey	Sapajus libidinosus	-	-	1	0.65
Felid	ni	-	-	1	0.65
Agouti	Dasyprocta azarae	-	-	1	0.65
Tapeti	Sylvilagus brasiliensis	-	-	1	0.65
Gray four-eyed opossum	Philander opossum	-	-	1	0.65
Small rodent	ni	-	-	1	-
Jabiru stork	Jabiru mycteria	1	0.23	0	-
Boat-billed heron	Cochlearius cochlearius	1	0.23	0	-
Great egret	Ardea alba	1	0.23	0	-
Bird	ni	0	0	5	3.27
Red-footed tortoise	Chelonoidis carbonaria	1	0.23	0	-
Anaconda	Eunectes sp.	1	0.23	0	-
Caiman lizard	Dracaena paraguayensis	1	0.23	0	-
Lizard	ni	0	0	1	0.65
Crab	ni	-	-	1
		431		153

*More than one species combined.

ni = unidentified species.