May 12 - June 3, 2005
Owing to difficulty bringing additional cameras into Mexico, the season got a later than expected start.  However, once camera traps were in place there was no shortage of photographs!

Surprisingly, two subadult pumas (Puma concolor) were photographed together on May 11. Repeated puma photographs through the season often seemed to be of one or the other of these two.
The first jaguar (Panthera onca) to be photographed in 2005! This cat was also our first in 2004, and the most frequently "captured" jaguar in the study thus far - racking up a tally of more than half of all jaguar pictures taken.

Both jaguar photographs in this row are the same animal. Camera traps are paired facing opposite one another in order to "capture" both sides of an animal in order to make a positive identification of its entire spot pattern.
These photos bear time and date stamps indicating that they were taken at virtually the same time. From now on, whenever a complete image of this jaguar is captured he will be easy to identify.

The collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu), or jabalí, in Spanish is a jaguar prey species but with sharp tusks and a tough hide can be a formidable opponent.
Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) are even more shy than jaguars.
This photo was taken at 12:10 a.m.

Virtually impossible to identify by its spot pattern, this jaguar could almost be confused with an ocelot if not for the known relative size of the trees.
The great curassow (Crax rubra) is a turkey-sized bird found in the forests of Central America.

With photographs taken around the clock, it appears that jaguars on the Yucatán coast are not strictly nocturnal (active by night), diurnal (active by day) or even crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk).
Pumas were photographed at this site, on a road, six times during a three-week period. A jaguar and the ocelot and javelinas above were also "captured" by this camera.