International Jaguar Day - 29 November 2023

The word 'jaguar' comes from the indigenous word 'yaguar', which means 'he who kills with one leap'.

Jaguars (Panthera onca) used to be found from the south-west USA, throughout South America to the central-southern part of Argentina.
Now, they’ve been virtually eliminated from half of their historic range. There are around 173,000 jaguars left in the world today, and most of these big cats are found in the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland. Their stronghold is in Brazil – it may hold around half of the estimated wild numbers.

The jaguar has been identified as one species across its entire range, making the connection and protection of its habitat critical for the species’ genetic diversity.

The species faces major threats from habitat loss, poaching, overhunting of its prey by people, and human-jaguar conflict.

Jaguars have an average lifespan of 12 to 15 years and can measure up to 8ft or 270cm in length.

Jaguars are often mistaken for leopards, but can be differentiated due to the spots within the rosettes on their coats.

While many cats avoid water, jaguars are great swimmers, and have even been known to swim the Panama Canal.

As the third largest cat in the world, jaguars have shorter tails but more muscular bodies.

Jaguars consume a diet of meat and fish, and their prey includes caimans!
(www.internationaljaguarday.org)

Deforestation rates are high in Latin America, both for logging and to clear space for cattle ranching.
This results in many new threats to jaguars, from the loss of their home to isolating their populations, making breeding harder. Less habitat also means jaguars’ prey is reduced - over a quarter of their range is thought to have depleted numbers of wild prey.
This leads them to hunt livestock and be killed by people. They’re also vulnerable to poaching, despite this being illegal. Though demand for their skins has declined since the mid-1970s, jaguar paws, teeth and other parts are still sought after, both locally and internationally for traditional medicine and ornaments.
(www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/jaguars)

Jaguar (Panthera onca), Corixa Três Irmãos, Pantanal, MT, Brazil

Taken in: Brazil / Mato Grosso do Sul / Capivara (show map)

Taken on: September 5, 2019

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