After a five-person team from the Arizona Game and Fish Department inspected the footage, they determined that the jaguar is a never-before-documented individual, AZGFD public information officer Mark Hart tells Outdoor Life. The series of flower-like spots near the jaguar’s shoulder blades (known as rosettes, which are unique to each individual like a fingerprint) is unlike any other specimen seen in the state. This makes Miller’s spotting the eighth known jaguar to set foot in the U.S. since 1996, a year before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service