A federal investigation is scrutinizing the capture and death of the only identified wild jaguar in the United States. The animal, known as Macho B (right), was caught on 18 February by a biologist team from the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the private Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project (BJDP). Released with a radio collar, the jaguar became ill, and was then recaptured and killed on 2 March. The biologists claim that the capture was inadvertent. But an inquiry by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which monitors such endangered species, began last week after team tracker Janay Brun disclosed that BJDP biologist Emit McCain had directed her to bait a snare with scat from a female jaguar, suggesting that the jaguar was specifically targeted.
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机译：一项联邦调查正在仔细研究美国唯一确定的野生美洲虎的捕获和死亡。该动物名为Macho B（右），于2月18日被亚利桑那州猎物与鱼类局和私人边境保护区美洲虎检测项目（BJDP）的生物学家小组捕获。美洲虎带着无线电项圈被释放，病了，然后于3月2日被俘虏并被杀死。生物学家声称捕获是无意的。但是上周，由美国鱼类和野生动物服务局（US Fish and Wildlife Service）进行的调查开始了，该小组的追踪者Janay Brun透露，BJDP生物学家Emit McCain指示她用一只雌性美洲虎的粪便诱捕一个网罗，暗示美洲虎是专门针对。
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