Tania, a female jaguar brought up in a zoo, is seen in her enclosure at the Impenetrable National Park, in the Chaco Province, Argentina September 23, 2020. Rewilding Argentina/Handout via REUTERS
SANTIAGO/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Conservationists are taking an unorthodox approach to save jaguars from dying out in Argentina's northern forests: matchmaking a captive female with a wild male.
The unusual courtship of Tania, brought up in a zoo, and Qaramta, meaning "The One Who Cannot Be Destroyed" in the regional Qom language, began last year around a specially constructed enclosure in the dense forests of Argentina's Impenetrable National Park.
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