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        Clear skies. Low 42F. Winds light and variable.

        Updated: December 6, 2025 @ 9:49 pm

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    • Arizona Daily Star
    • Aug 3, 2022
    • Aug 3, 2022 Updated Aug 5, 2022
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    Photos: Suburban bobcat sightings around Tucson

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    • Updated Oct 19, 2022

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    • Arizona Daily Star
    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

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    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

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    • By Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star
    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

    Like the other six wild jaguars discovered in Arizona and New Mexico since 1996, this one is a male.

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    • Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star
    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

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    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

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    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

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    • SUE MANNING Associated Press
    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

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    • Updated Aug 3, 2022

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    • Updated Oct 14, 2022

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    • Updated Sep 13, 2022

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    For Star subscribers: A jaguar known as El Jefe last photographed in the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson in 2015, is the same cat photographed in November in Sonora, conservation groups say.

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