--- description: 'El Jefe' is the only wild jaguar living in the United States. title: Rare Footage of America's Only Wild Jaguar image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Rare Footage of America's Only Wild Jaguar by [Connor Mannion / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Connor Mannion / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2016 11:56 PM CUT by [Connor Mannion / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Connor Mannion / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2016 11:56 PM CUT A stunning new video released Wednesday shows a glimpse of the only known wild jaguar currently living in the U.S. The big cat, dubbed “El Jefe,” has been living an elusive life in Arizona, and has been photographed repeatedly by remote sensor cameras in the Santa Rita Mountains over the past few years. But he’s never been captured on video — until now. Two conservation groups, Conservation CATalyst and the Center for Biological Diversity, released the video Wednesday, which shows El Jefe roaming just 25 miles outside of downtown Tucson. The groups said they have determined that El Jefe is an “adult… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/caught-camera-new-video-shows-america-s-only-known-wild-n510651?cid=par-time%5F20160203 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4207199/us-jaguar-el-jefe-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4207199/us-jaguar-el-jefe-video/"},"headline":"Watch Rare Footage of America's Only Wild Jaguar","datePublished":"2016-02-03T23:56:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:41.427Z","description":"He lives in the mountains of Arizona","url":"https://time.com/4207199/us-jaguar-el-jefe-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Arizona","Jaguar"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Connor Mannion / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4207199/us-jaguar-el-jefe-video/","name":"Watch Rare Footage of America's Only Wild Jaguar"}}]}] ```