June 4 - July 4, 2005
The season was cut short in July by the first hurricane that threatened the Caribbean coast of Mexico. All the cameras were retrieved in July, and the team was never able to reinstall them because of the number of storms in 2005.


First photographed in May, this jaguar is new to the study in 2005.
Yet repeated photographs of him, shown above, at left and below, indicate that he may have taken up permanent residence.

These birds are female great curassows (Crax rubra). Compared with the male below, they are mostly brown and have a distinctive black and white crest of head feathers.
How do we know this is the same jaguar pictured above? Compare both sides of the jaguar photographed in may and you will see that this photo corresponds to the left side, and the photo above corresponds to the right.

This appears to be a new jaguar in the area.
He was photographed again at the same site, four days later.

The male great curassow is mostly black with a solid black crest and a yellow patch of bare skin on the face.
Sometimes the reflected "eyeshine" from a cat like this puma is captured dramatically in a photograph.