Jaguar

(Jrt)

Jaguar

The jaguar is a carnivorous mammal, related to the leopard and the felidae family (such as the tiger, lion or cats). Its natural habitat is on the American continent: Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, northern Argentina and northern Mexico, and his case died in the southern United States (Arizona, New Mexico). His former range has been reduced (see map) by almost half. Three major clusters are relatively isolated populations, including through the Panama Canal, fragmentation factor coupled with écopaysagère made many roads in the forest, which promote cuts and hunting legal and / or illegal.


Physical and physiological

* Height at the shoulder: 68 - 76 cm.
* Length: 112 - 185 cm tail, 45 - 75 cm.
* Weight: 80 to 120 kg
* Longevity: ten years, up to 22 years in captivity.


Food
The jaguar has a carnivorous diet. Hunting is primarily diurnal and lonely, looking particularly peccaries, capybaras, monkeys, rodents, anteaters, tapirs, agoutis, turtles, caimans, fish, livestock and sometimes, why it is killed by éléveurs. His retractile claws would be useful to maintain prey to its hind legs, while the front legs are stifled. Sometimes, the jaguar attacks the cougar, the second largest feline in the new world.

Lifestyle

* Where do not hunting, the jaguar rests day in the shadow thick, sometimes in a cave, or is growing on a branch. It lives in all sorts of habitats, from sea level up to 1000 meters, but up to 2700 meters in the Andes and even 3800 meters in Costa Rica. Good swimmer, he prefers areas where there is enough water such as forests along rivers, rivers and lakes, mangroves where floodplains Brazilian Pantanal and the llanos of Venezuela. Its preferred habitat is the marshy savannah and rocky hills, woodlands, near a river or a lake, where game abounds.
* When it's hot, there are times when the jaguar take a bath in a river nearby.
* The vocalization of the most characteristic jaguar is a series of calls short and deep, with a length and a relatively constant intensity, voted in rapid succession is usually very steady. This vocalization is quite similar to the leopard. Where is threatening a jaguar can grogner, scolding and blow.

Reproduction
The female bears little over 93 to 110 days. The female jaguar can have from one to four small per year. Small born blind and weigh between 700 and 900 grams. They open their eyes two weeks after birth and six months they begin to hunt. Small jaguars remain with their mothers for two years, then they leave their mothers to have their own territory.

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