[Note: undated footage]

Jaguar breastfeeds its cub in the Pantanal of MT, Brazil. The area of 108 thousand hectares is monitored by 165 cameras.

This is the tender moment a jaguar shows her motherly affection by breastfeeding her cubs which has touched researchers.

The rare videos were recorded in the largest Private Natural Heritage Reserve in Brazil, the RPPN Sesc Pantanal, located in the municipality of Barao de Melgaco, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

In the video series, the jaguar chooses a place with dry leaves, ideal for camouflage and then returns with the two cubs, who explore the space, play with each other, with a branch and with their mother too.

According to the biologist and general manager of the Polo Socioambiental Sesc Pantanal, Cristina Cuiabalia, the videos are rare for two reasons.

First, because the jaguar chooses, in the extension of the RPPN equivalent to 108 thousand football fields, a space in front of the camera.

And second, because of the breastfeeding scene, a moment that reflects the success in conserving the area where key species such as the jaguar find good living conditions.