These are the results of a 10 nights trip to the Northern Pantanal.
We stayed at South Wild, Jaguar Flotel and Pouso Alegre.

Each lodge had it's own highlights:
At South Wild (Pixaim river) there were lots of birds, capybara and caiman. The Ocelot only visited the hide about once every three days.

At the Jaguar Flotel (Piquiri,Three Brothers and other rivers), we had seen 4 jaguars within 2 hours!
The jaguars here are totally accustomed to boats... not even slightly bothered by a fleet of them!
Probably the cold front which brought rain and low temperatures helped the animal sightings here.
In all we had 15 jaguar sightings of 6 different jaguars (each jaguar has a different pattern of rosettes and there is a database of 179 named individuals.)
We also saw several groups of Giant River Otters as well as one Neotropical Otter. There were plenty of birds and caiman.

At Pouso Alegre (truck drives), there were lots of coati (although more wary than those I saw in Costa Rica),
more than a dozen tapirs, lots of Crab-Eating Foxes (some trying to pinch the food left out for the birds!)
and three very good sightings of Giant Anteater. The first (at night time) was amazing.
The anteater seemed to enjoy being near people and came up to sniff at everyone around it at the lodge...
before trying to get into the kitchen! (what on earth an anteater could find to eat in the kitchen baffles me!)

I did get some animals on my camera trap.... foxes, tapirs, a european hare and an opossum plus lots of domestic piggies & horses.

At South Wild, I found on retrieving it after 3 nights in the "wild", that within an hour of me having set it up,
a kindly fox had found it and decided that if it couldn't eat the camera it was jolly well going to realign it to point into the bushes, rather than along the path....
so didn't get much else there!

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