Jaguar Animal

Its main prey is capybaras and ungulates such as marsh and white-tailed deer, oysters, bakers and tapirs, but it also attacks birds, monkeys, foxes, snakes and rodents. Jaguar also hunts turtles - its powerful jaws are able to bite their shell. Unlike the cougar, the jaguar willingly and often attacks livestock. The predator swims well and rarely releases its prey, which seeks refuge in the water. He also digs turtle eggs out of the sand on the ocean coast, sometimes throwing himself at sleeping alligators or snatching fish from the water.

Body length without tail 1.1–1.9 m, tail 45–75 cm, weight 36–113 kg, in some cases over 120 kg. The record is 158 kg. The female is 20% smaller and lighter. A normal normal adult male of a large subspecies weighs about 90-100 kg.

The name probably comes from yaguara (jaguarete), which meant "beast that kills with one leap." In some Amazonian Indians, for example, blunt, jaguar is called similar - iawa, iawaraté. Interestingly, in guarana, "jagua" means "dog". The scientific name Panthera onca translates as "catcher" and "thorn, hairpin" (meaning powerful jaguar claws).

The main habitats of jaguars are tropical rainforests and grasslands, but the animal is also found in semi-arid areas overgrown with xerophytic shrubs. It was found in mountain forests, up to 2,000 m, and on the ocean coast, where the predator searches for and digs up turtle eggs.

Jaguar habitat stretches from Central America to the swamps and jungles of Mato Grosso, as well as northern Argentina. The largest jaguars live in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Jaguars are completely extinct in El Salvador and Uruguay.

It has an extremely powerful bite, even compared to other large cats [5]. The jaguar is able to bite the shell of armored reptiles [6] and uses an unusual method of killing: it bites directly through the victim's skull between the ears to inflict a fatal bite on the brain [7].