jaguar

[[image:jaguar.jpg align="left"]] Jaguar
Panthera Onca

Contributed by craig10

Jaguars are the largest cats in North and South America. They are really shy and mysterious animals. They are also the most water loving cats in the world. http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/jaguars.html

Size
The jaguar grows to be five to six feet from there head to the tip of there tail. They wheigh 140 to 220 pounds females are slighty smaller than males. http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/jaguar.html

DIET
Jaguars are mostly meat eaters they eat wild pigs, deer, small aligators, tapirs, fish, and small rodents they just drink water. http://www.bigcatrescue.org/jaguar.htm

POPULATION
There is about an estimated 15,000 left in the wild. Hunting jaguar is a sport in some countries in South America people hunt them for there skin.

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LIFESPAN
Jaguars live 12-16 years in the wild. http://www.agarman.dial.pipex.com/jaguar.htm

HABITAT
Although they prefer thick forest or swamps with good cover and water access, jaguars have been known to hunt in arid, open areas. http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/jaguar.html

RANGE
Found mainly in Central and South America some continue to survive in Mexico. Two confirmed sightings of male jaguars occurred in 1996 in Arizona and New Mexico about ten miles north of the Mexico border. http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/jaguar.html