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Jaguar

The Jaguar

The book I read for this report was on Jaguars, their size, possible extinction, their behavior, and their habitat. The scientific name, Panthera Onca, is known to most people as the jaguar. Panthera is Greek, meaning “hunter,” and onca is Greek for “hook” or “barb,” which is talking about the animal’s claws. In South America the name for it is yaguar, which means a beast that kills its prey with one bound, or he who kills with one leap. The jaguar is on the endangered species list in the United States, Central, and South America. The jaguar is the largest cat in the western hemisphere and the third largest cat in the world. It is the only large cat in North America other than the American Lion, which was killed off after the last ice age about eleven thousand years ago.
Like all cats, the jaguar’s front feet have five toes, and the back have four. They can reach a length of 6 feet and a height of 2.5 to 3 feet. The tail of the jaguar is normally around twenty-six to......


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