Jaguar Charastics?

Question

What are some charastics of a Jaguar?

Answer 1

There are two types of Jaguars - black with gold spots, and gold with black spots.
They are very fast.
They look like leopards, but have fatter tails and have dots inside their spots.
They roar, stalk their prey, and hunt at night, when their vision is better.

Answer 2

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Introduction: The Jaguar is the largest and most powerful of the American members of the cat family. The jaguar is found from the southern United States to northern Argentina, but it is especially abundant in the dense forests of Central America and Brazil.

Physical Characteristics: A mature jaguar is 112 to 185 cm (44 to 73 in) long, not including the tail, which is 45 to 75 cm (18 to 30 in) in length, and stands 60 cm (2 ft) high at the shoulder. Its coat is a rich yellow to rusty-red, and occasionally black, spotted with large black rosettes, each consisting of a circle of spots surrounding a central spot. The head and body are massive, and the legs are relatively short and thick. An adept climber and an excellent swimmer, the animal feeds on a wide range of arboreal, terrestrial, and aquatic animals.

Behavior: Although feared, the jaguar rarely attacks humans. In the pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru and Central America, it was worshiped as a god. Today the jaguar is extensively hunted because of ranchers' claims that it attacks cattle, although studies indicate that such attacks are infrequent.


Mating Habits: Jaguars appear to mate in any season, although in some areas they may mate seasonally. After a gestation period of 93 to 105 days, the female bears one to four cubs, which remain with the mother until about the age of two. Jaguars have lived up to 22 years in captivity.

Scientific classification: Family - Felidae, Genus - Panthera,

Answer 3

The jaguar is a compact and well-muscled animal. There are significant variations in size: weights are normally in the range of 56–96 kg (124–211 lb). Larger animals have been recorded as weighing 131–151 kg (288–333 lb) (matching the average for female lions and tigers), as have extremely low weights of 36 kg (80 lb). Females are typically 10–20% smaller than males. The length of the cat varies from 1.62–1.83 m (5.3–6 feet), and its tail may add a further 75 cm (30 in). They stand about 67–76 cm (27–30 inches) tall at the shoulders.[14]

Further variations in size have been observed across regions and habitats, with size tending to increase from north to south. A study of the jaguar in the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve on the Mexican pacific coast, showed ranges of just 30–50 kg (66–110 lb), about the size of the puma.[15] By contrast, a study of jaguars in the Brazilian Pantanal region found average weights of 100 kg (220 lb).[16] Forest jaguars are frequently darker and considerably smaller than those found in open areas (the Pantanal is an open wetland basin), possibly due to the fewer large herbivorous prey in forest areas.[17]

A short and stocky limb structure makes the jaguar adept at climbing, crawling and swimming.[14] The head is robust and the jaw extremely powerful. It has been suggested that jaguars have the strongest bite of all felids, and the second strongest of all mammals; this strength is an adaptation that allows jaguars to pierce turtle shells.[3] A comparative study of bite force adjusted for body size ranked them as the top felid, alongside the snow leopard and ahead of the lion and tiger,[2] while a National Geographic special suggested the jaguar is by weight the most powerful cat in the world.[18] It has been reported that "an individual jaguar can drag an 800-pound bull 25 feet [8 m] in its jaws and pulverize the heaviest bones".[19] The jaguar hunts wild animals weighing up to 300 kg (660 lb) in dense jungle, and its short and sturdy physique is thus an adaptation to its prey and environment.

The base coat of the jaguar is generally a tawny yellow, but can range to reddish-brown and black. The cat is covered in rosettes for camouflage in its jungle habitat. The spots vary over individual coats and between individual jaguars: rosettes may include one or several dots, and the shape of the dots varies. The spots on the head and neck are generally solid, as are those on the tail, where they may merge to form a band. The underbelly, throat and outer surface of the legs and lower flanks are white.[14]

A condition known as melanism occurs regularly in the species; jaguars with melanism appear entirely black, although their spots are still visible on close examination. Melanism is relatively common, since a dominant, rather than recessive allele causes the colouration.[20] Melanistic jaguars are informally known as black panthers, but do not form a separate species. Rare albino individuals, sometimes called white panthers, occur among jaguars, as with the other big cats.[17]

The jaguar closely resembles the leopard, but is sturdier and heavier, and the two animals can be distinguished by their rosettes: the rosettes on a jaguar’s coat are larger, fewer in number, usually darker, and have thicker lines and small spots in the middle that the leopard lacks. The head of the jaguar is rounder, and it has shorter, stockier limbs.[21]

Answer 4

There cats
There wild
They live in packs
And they are carnivourse
And they have spots