‘Insane’ camera trap video captures rare battle in the Amazon

Without camera traps we would never be privy to two endangered species sparring in the remote Amazon rainforest.

As darkness descended over the Peruvian Amazon in 2006, my wife and I listened spellbound while our guide told us the grisly story of the jaguar and giant anteater.

Eyewitnesses, our guide insisted, had found the two foes dead together, embracing like lovers but in mutual destruction - the jaguar's jaw still drooped around the anteater's neck where it had pierced its prey's artery and the anteater's ten-centimeter-long claws still embedded in the big cat's flanks. Later, after the spell - and liquor - wore off, I thought it was probably a tall tale, something to tell tourists after the sun sets over the world's greatest jungle and you've all had a few too many. But an incredible new camera trap video proves I may have been wrong to doubt.