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JoseBalow

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5. It's an assumption. It wasn't witnessed actually making the swim
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 05:52 PM
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Isn't it possible that the cat floated part or all of the distance while clinging to a log or some other floating object?

... seems to have made a record-breaking swim...

Researchers believe...

... or it might have swam...

We are being conservative by assuming...

... not yet been peer-reviewed...

Until now, the farthest a jaguar has been recorded to swim was roughly a mere 650 feet, so this work pushes the record to six times longer.

... probably not unusual.

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