Rare Arizona jaguar roams mountains near Tucson
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A remote sensor camera run by Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity shows a jaguar roaming the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson. The groups say this is the first publicly released video of the jaguar, named El Jefe, who is the only known wild jaguar in the United States.
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Remote sensor cameras record footage of "El Jefe" roaming the Santa Rita Mountains.
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