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A jaguar in Ecuador bounces back after suffering shotgun wound

QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) — A lucky jaguar in Ecuador is getting a new lease on life after recovering in a Quito veterinary clinic where she was brought with a shotgun wound some two and a half months ago. The jaguar, which has been named D’yaira, was brought to a University San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) animal hospital with 18 shotgun pellet wounds. One of the pellets was lodged in the big cat’s spinal cord causing paralysis […]