A video of deathmatch between jaguar and crocodile shows just how brutal things can get in the wild. What’s even more challenging is to capture an incredible hunt like this on video and Wildlife photographer Kevin Dooley achieved it.
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In a video that’s going viral, the jaguar is seen leaping from a tree and 10 feet below a rover, before taking a crocodile out of the water it was swimming in.
Wildlife photographer Kevin Dooley, 58, said the jaguar ‘never failed to break its gaze’ from the caiman which was in a river below in Pantanal, Brazil.
“He then dragged it up the tree, as though it had got his dinner. It left me speechless, the jaguar never failed to break its gaze from the caiman in the river, I couldn’t believe it all happened in front of me,” said Dooley.
Dooley said he was touring on a boat with a few other people when the fight drew their attention.
“It is one of those things that you hope doesn’t happen when you are resting your arms with the camera, because I was watching it through a lens the whole time,” said Dooley.
“The jaguar didn’t move that whole time and just watched every movement of the caiman, he never took his eyes off it.”
Dooley said that he waited for more than an hour for the jaguar to move. When the time was right, the big cat pounced on wrestled with for 10 minutes and killed it.