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<\/p>\nCinco the jaguar has again been spotted (pun intended), and he is still showing up where long-term science says he would, the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research & Conservation Center (WCC) said earlier today in a social media post. Cinco is the fifth jaguar known to be in Arizona since 2011.<\/p>\n
Captured through year\u2011round community\u2011science monitoring by the independently funded University of Arizona Wild Cat Research & Conservation Center, recent detections of the male known as \u201cCinco\u201d are more than chance encounters. After 15 years of monitoring, researchers say the locations where Cinco appears are not guesses but established corridors tied to water, prey and cover. Cinco\u2019s repeated use of the same sites is clear evidence of site fidelity, a behavior WCC scientists expected based on landscape features and one that is now consistently supported by multi\u2011year data across multiple jaguars.<\/p>\n
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\u201cJaguars rely heavily on scent marking and revisiting key locations across the landscape,\u201d WCC researchers said in a social media post. That predictable behavior, combined with the species\u2019 resilience, helps explain why individual animals repeatedly move along the same pathways across public lands, working ranches and other connected habitats \u2014 a pattern researchers interpret as a sign of healthy biodiversity and functioning ecosystems.<\/p>\n
Related: Rescued mountain lion cubs find new home in Tucson<\/a><\/p>\n KGUN 9 has also documented recent jaguar activity in southern Arizona, underscoring that Cinco\u2019s appearances are part of a broader pattern of rare but recurring detections. In one report<\/a>, we described a trail\u2011camera capture in Cochise County by local outdoorsman Jason Miller, who said he was \u201cover the moon\u201d after photographing a jaguar on a camera he\u2019d been setting for years; KGUN 9 noted that the animal Miller recorded was among only a handful of unique jaguars documented in the United States in recent decades (reporting it as one of the very few confirmed individuals recorded since the 1990s).<\/p>\n