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 * The jaguar is the third-largest cat in the world. You can only find them in the America's. It is the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The tiger and the lion is before the jaguar in the largest big cat in the world. The jaguar looks a lot like a leopard physically. Their is also a species of a black jaguar it is very rare if a black jaguar is in a liter only 1 and 4 can come out black. They can weigh from 100-225 pounds. Jaguars are built to have a lot of strength not to have speed. They don't have spots on their stomach they one have them on their back and on their legs. they can live to be 12 years old in the wild but 20 years old in captivity. Jaguars live in Arizona and New Mexico in the U.S and all throughout Mexico. They are common in South American in the rainforest in the Amazon Basin.They live near rainforest because the water, jaguars are very good swimmers. The habitat they live in ranges form rainforest to flooded swamps, jaguars like to live in swampy places so that they can swim to get exercise. The jaguar is a carnivore it usually eats small animals like deers, and small alligators. The decline of this animal is decreasing dramatically. They are loosing their habitat very fast because of humans cutting down tress that they live in and polluting their swaps that they like the play in. Humans are also killing these beautiful creatures for their fur and their teeth. Humans use their fur for coats and shirts. They use their teeth for necklaces. Ranchers also kill the big cat because they pray upon their livestock. People have put a law on killing jaguars but farmers and ranchers still do to protect their livestock. The jaguar is on the "Red List" on the endangered list which means they are near threatened for being extinct. Female jaguars usually reproduce once every 2 years usually in the wet season (spring). Usually after 90 to 111 days the female give birth to 2 to 4 cubs. The young cubs usually hunt with their mother after 6 months of their birth and go off on their own at almost 2 years old. They feed on 85 different kinds of prey, large animals such as deer, crocodiles, turtles, large birds, porcupines, snakes, and fish. The website Defenders of the Wild allows you to adopt a jaguar and you can support a jaguar and send in money to help it get what it needs to stay alive and keep the species alive in this world.**



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