A wounded jaguar that was found swimming in the Rio Negro in Brazil was rescued by officials.
Footage posted by the Amazonas State Secretariat for Public Security shows the jaguar – which is Brazil’s national animal as well as a protected species – clinging to a float being towed by a military police boat.
The military police worked with the Animal Protection Secretariat and a feline specialist to rescue the jaguar.
According to local reports, the jaguar had been shot multiple times and had more than 30 pieces of shrapnel in its face, head and neck. Despite its injuries, the jaguar was in stable condition and was treated at a clinic in Manaus before being transferred to a zoo, one report said.
