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07/21/2021 1:33 PM
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Updated 07/21/2021 1:34 PM
A
puma
was trapped on the top of a
glacier
, on
Lake Argentino,
to the surprise of the tourists who were sailing by boat through the place. Experts analyzed how to return it to its natural habitat although they considered that the animal
"is not in any danger"
and that "it will wait a moment of" solitude "to throw itself back into the water and get out of the difficult situation in which it was. However,
no one knows how he got there.
“You are not at risk. It will swim away as soon as it finds the opportunity.
Pumas are expert swimmers ”
, said the director of Fauna of the Provincial Agrarian Council of Santa Cruz Amanda Manero.
The official added that "it will surely bother him that there are people nearby and that is why he remains still among the glaciers, and he will surely wait for a moment when the waters are calm and that there is no one nearby to return to the mainland." Tourists navigating the place near
El Calafate
, in Santa Cruz, were surprised Tuesday when they saw the animal on a glacier that also had a slight movement.
It is the
Upsala glacier,
which slowly floated aimlessly through Lake Argentino.
Some images were taken by Milthon Rischmann, a photographer hired by a tourism company that sells excursions to different points of Los Glaciares National Park, one of the tourist places par excellence in the province of Santa Cruz.
They did not take long to go viral.
The animal was in the arm on the way from Punta Bandera to the Upsala Glacier.
Unpublished: a puma appeared on a glacier in El Calafate 🧊
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Tourists saw a puma on an iceberg that floated on Lake Argentino, in Los Glaciares National Park, El Calafate, Santa Cruz.
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The guides assured that it is something rarely seen in the area.
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Impressive.
A cougar tries to hold onto the ice.
Surprise for tourists./Milthon Rischmann
But quickly, the experts took away the fear of several tourists who asked for the immediate rescue of the cougar.
“He is an expert swimmer and it is common to see him in the water, although never on a glacier.
There is no explanation for how it got there, ”they said.
Manero stated that “it would be much
more complicated to go to the rescue and try to“ stop ”it
and place it on a boat.
Even having given him narcotics to make him sleepy, because it would be more dangerous for the animal to fall into the water in that situation.
If there is not much wind and the sea is calmer, it will surely return to the water to return to land ”, estimated the professional and official.
In addition, he recalled: “Some time ago we found the corpse of a small female huemul killed by a puma in the water in Lago del Desierto.
Therefore, while it is not very common for this class of animals to be found in the water, it can happen from time to time.
The strange thing is how he managed to climb an iceberg.
We do not know under what circumstances and why ,
"he concluded.
Chubut, Correspondent.
A puma appeared climbing a glacier in Lake ARgentino Photo: / Milton Rischmann
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