http://www.free-picture-graphic.org.uk/close-up-of-jaguar-cat.htmThe Jaguar is the largest cat the the western hemisphere and weighs from 250 pounds on. It is about 5 1/2 to 8 feet long with tail. It lives in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Mexico, Central, and South America, though it is very rare in the United States. The Jaguar is not at all hesitant to enter water though many others of its family hate water. The Jaguar habitat ranges from dense rainforest to flooded swamy areas.
The jaguar will eat anything that it can hunt but usually likes to hunt bigger prey like capybara and tapirs. It usually kills prey by piercing their skulls with its sharp canines.
So what is the difference between a leopard and a jaguar? Well a jaguar has a much stockier body and is shorted in length than the leopard. Their patterns are also different. A jaguar has circles with dots in the middle while leopards have spots.
Their home range is for males 19 to 53 square miles and for females 10 to 37 square miles. Thats a big home but that is all they use in their whole life. Compared to humans it is not that much.
Fun Jaguar Facts
- Poaching and habitat destruction are the main cases of the jaguar being an endangered species.
- Jaguars mainly hunt at night.
- jaguar’s name means “a beast that kills its prey with a single bound.”
- A jaguar’s roar sounds like a deep, chesty rough cough.(Something like that)
- Melanistic jaguar have been mistakenly called “black panthers.” Black panthers do not exist.
- Poaching and habitat destruction are the main cases of the jaguar being an endangered species.
- Jaguars mainly hunt at night.
- jaguar’s name means “a beast that kills its prey with a single bound.”
- A jaguar’s roar sounds like a deep, chesty rough cough.(Something like that)
- Melanistic jaguar have been mistakenly called “black panthers.” Black panthers do not exist.
The following information is from the website:http://www.thejunglestore.com/Jaguars
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