Cate Reilly, Jaguar dreaming. The Pantanal, Brazil, September 2025 (SINGLE SHOT 2025)

A female jaguar named Ryan by local biologists - and one of the reigning matriarch of this part of the Pantanal, Patricia’s, many progeny - takes time out from the serious business of hunting for her cubs to smell the flowers as the sun goes down on the Rio Cuiabá.

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