Mexican Jungle Reserve

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Campeche, Mexico Reserve

This map would be based in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico on the Yucatán Peninsula.
Biomes: Jungle, Lowland Forest, Grassland, Swamps

Tier 4-
White-Lipped Peccary (Tayassu pecari)
PH- Jungle SH- Lowland Forest

Collared Peccary (Dicotyles tajacu)
PH- Lowland Forest SH- Jungle, Grassland

Yucatán White-tailed Deer (O. v. yucatanesis)
PH- Lowland Forest SH- Grassland

Central American Red Brocket (Mazama temama)
PH- Jungle SH- Lowland Forest

Yucatán Brown Brocket (Odocoileus pandora)
PH- Jungle SH- Lowland Forest, Grassland

Tier 3-
Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
PH- Lowland Forest SH- Grassland

White-Nosed Coati (Nasua narica)
PH- Jungle, Lowland Forest

Lowland Paca (Cuniculus paca)
PH- Jungle, Lowland Forest

Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)
PH- Jungle, Lowland Forest

Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
PH- Lowland Forest, Jungle PH- Grassland, Swamps

Tier 1-
Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata)
PH- Jungle

Great Curassow (Crax rubra)
PH- Jungle

Crested Guan (Penelope purpurascens)
PH- Jungle

Thicket Tinamou (Crypturellus cinnamomeus)
PH- Jungle

Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula)
PH- Jungle, Lowland Forest

Yucatán Bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis)
PH- Grassland

Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata)
PH- Jungle, Lowland Forest

Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis)
PH- Swamps

Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)
PH- Swamps

Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
PH- Swamps

Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
PH- Swamps

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The “big game” feature on this map, although none of them often reach 100 pounds, are very sneaky and hard to hunt.

Here’s all of the small mammals, most of them live on the jungle floor and are hard to find and much harder to harvest.

Here’s the upland/jungle birds. The pride and main draw of the reserve would of course be the ocellated turkey.

Lastly, I went with some widely hunted waterfowl species just to fully buy into the amazing small game hunting potential of this map.

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This might sound crazy but Coyotes could also be a potential species, but I would consider it a hard maybe, mostly because they are expanding south every year and one or 2 have even made it to the otherside of the Panama Canal, though these coyotes would be a different subspecies with the most suitable subspecies for this map being the Belize Coyote (Canis latrans goldmani) which is one of the larger Central American subspecies which generally trend towards dark reddish colors and shorter muzzles then most coyotes.

Even without including the coyote this species list is fantastic and fits the area well

I would also hope with this reserve we get to have buckshot and slugs for shotguns, and weather that comes in the form of interchangeable ammo for the shotguns or not this would be the map to introduce it

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I did look at coyotes but I couldn’t find much about any hunting of them in Campeche or even the surrounding states. I was also wondering about pumas just because I saw fleeting statements saying they could be hunted but nothing very clear. Any more bigger game ideas would be appreciated.

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I remember watching some videos regarding hunting seasons in Mexico and Coyote was mentioned (
IHEA México is the name of the Youtube Channel, though its all in Spanish the videos regarding hunting seasons do provide pictures of the animals), but as far as Puma goes, I have heard that most of the hunting takes place in Northern Mexico

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The only reason I thought so is because I saw an ad for hunting that listed “jungle cougar” as puma concolor as an option of species huntable. However no other info so I don’t know

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I would assume that if they did allow puma hunting in Campeche, they probably don’t anymore for some reason