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<blockquote data-quote="Tesoro" data-source="post: 655905" data-attributes="member: 44340"><p>Saw this post from earlier this year. I just returned back to the NW after 2 decades of living in Central America in Jaguar country.</p><p>I know a few things about a male cat and one is that he is very territorial, two is that he loves to copulate to the n'th degree and three he detests with a passion any other male who is in his territory chasin his *****.</p><p>So what we would do is find the territory of a big male by his tracks...and then try to call him in. We would use a gourd called a calabash that was hollow and dried...it looked like a small smooth pumpkin about the size of a soccer ball. On the top we would cut out a round hole about the size of a grapefruit. On the opposite side we drilled a small hole in the center and passed through 4 leather boot laces rubbed in pine rosin which were knotted on the outside of the gourd to hold in place.</p><p>One would hold the gourd curled up in left arm and then reach inside the gourd with right hand and gently start pulling on the rosined leather..the calabash would act like a drum and the sound emitted would be just like a guttural gruntish roar of the jaguar carrying the jungle. All big cats make similar sounds when telling females they are around and horny. When a resident male hears that sound in his territory he gets infuriated and starts calling back while coming in for the fight. </p><p>When I was a kid I logged in NW california and by woods boss told me that he had once made a 'lion caller' out of a bucket with cowhide and rosined sisal rope. The bucket was cut out so I was like a drum...the hide was soaked in water before lashed to the cut out bucket bottom. Same principal as the jaguar caller...he would call in lions for fun and also scare the s..it out of boyscouts camped out in the summer nights...</p><p>I am not sure if there are electronic calls that imitate this but I doubt they would have the carrying distance - resonance of the drum effect.</p><p>From my experience the mating call was much more effective than dying peccary calls etc as cats only respond to these when hungry and half they time they are not because they have 40 lbs of meat in their belly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tesoro, post: 655905, member: 44340"] Saw this post from earlier this year. I just returned back to the NW after 2 decades of living in Central America in Jaguar country. I know a few things about a male cat and one is that he is very territorial, two is that he loves to copulate to the n'th degree and three he detests with a passion any other male who is in his territory chasin his *****. So what we would do is find the territory of a big male by his tracks...and then try to call him in. We would use a gourd called a calabash that was hollow and dried...it looked like a small smooth pumpkin about the size of a soccer ball. On the top we would cut out a round hole about the size of a grapefruit. On the opposite side we drilled a small hole in the center and passed through 4 leather boot laces rubbed in pine rosin which were knotted on the outside of the gourd to hold in place. One would hold the gourd curled up in left arm and then reach inside the gourd with right hand and gently start pulling on the rosined leather..the calabash would act like a drum and the sound emitted would be just like a guttural gruntish roar of the jaguar carrying the jungle. All big cats make similar sounds when telling females they are around and horny. When a resident male hears that sound in his territory he gets infuriated and starts calling back while coming in for the fight. When I was a kid I logged in NW california and by woods boss told me that he had once made a 'lion caller' out of a bucket with cowhide and rosined sisal rope. The bucket was cut out so I was like a drum...the hide was soaked in water before lashed to the cut out bucket bottom. Same principal as the jaguar caller...he would call in lions for fun and also scare the s..it out of boyscouts camped out in the summer nights... I am not sure if there are electronic calls that imitate this but I doubt they would have the carrying distance - resonance of the drum effect. From my experience the mating call was much more effective than dying peccary calls etc as cats only respond to these when hungry and half they time they are not because they have 40 lbs of meat in their belly. [/QUOTE]
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