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Third-largest living feline species,after the tiger and lion.

The jaguar is the largest cat founds in the America. The jaguar has a dense body, a broad head and so much powerful jaws. Its fur is normally yellow and tan, but after all the color can vary from reddish brown to black. The spots on the  skin are more solid and black on the head and neck and become larger rose-like shaped patterns along the side and back of the body.


 Diet  

Jaguars best known to  eat deer, peccary, crocodile, snakes, monkeys, deer, sloths, tapirs, turtles, eggs, frogs, fish and anything else they can catch.

Weight

 The weight of jaguar is ringing from  79 - 211 lbs, but individual males have been recorded up to 350 lbs

Population 

At best according to the reports only 15,000 jaguars remains in the Jungle . Bi-national  patronage huge efforts have been successful at protecting a small population of 80 to 120 cats in the Sonora  mountains , Mexico bordering Arizona.  This population is the largest of there known to remain in Sonora, and is the  hope for recovery in the United States.

 Jaguars are  companion-less animals and live and hunt alone, except during sexual intercourse season. The male's Jaguars home range is between 19 and 53 square miles and often overlaps with the smaller home ranges of multiple females. A male sharply protects his home range and resident females from other males.

The jaguar hunts mostly on the ground, but it sometimes climbs a tree and assail on its prey from above. It has most powerful jaws and very-very sharp teeth and usually kills its prey with one crushing bite to the skull. The jaguar loves the water  it often swims, bathes, plays and even hunts for fish in streams and pools. Like all members of the big cat family, jaguars can roar. The jaguar’s roar sounds like a deep, chesty cough.

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