“El Jefe,” a northern jaguar last spotted in Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains in 2015, has been spotted again, this time in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Mexico’s Sonora state.
New pictures from Mexican nonprofit PROFAUNA were released last week, showing El Jefe in Sonora in November 2021. Over 150 motion-sensitives cameras were used in the field, and sifting through the large volume of data to identify El Jefe has taken time.
El Jefe, whose moniker was given to him by Tucson middle schoolers in 2011 and means “the boss” in Spanish, was at one point the only confirmed wild jaguar in the U.