The African cats are relatively easy to find and to photograph because they are out in the open. Jaguars, on the other hand, live and hunt in dense vegetation and that makes them much more difficult to find. But there is an area in Brazil called the Pantanal, and it is here that offers the best place in the world to have close encounters with these spectacular cats. Jaguars hunt mostly caiman and capybara, and both are water dwelling animals. That forces the cats to come to the river's edge, and that exposes their presence. I took this picture from a boat, and even though we were fairly close I still had to use a long lens to fill the frame. My settings were 1/1000, f/8, and 1250 ISO, and I used a 500mm f/4 lens plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. My next photo tour to the Pantanal of Brazil is Nov. 2026.
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