Back Jaguar AF የዱር ድመት AM Panthera onca AN Wīnlendisc panðer ANG يغور Arabic يغور ARZ Panthera onca AST Tukrunol (Panthera onca) AVK Jach'a titi AY Yaquar AZ
| Jaguar Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – Recent
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| A jaguar | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. onca
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| Binomial name | |
| Panthera onca | |
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat (feline) of the genus Panthera. It lives in South and Central America.
The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion. It is also the largest and most powerful feline in the Western Hemisphere.
Because of its spots, jaguars look like leopards, though it is usually larger and stronger, and its behavior is more like that of a tiger. It likes to stay near water, and like the tiger, it is famous for being a big cat that enjoys swimming. It usually hunts alone.
The jaguar has a very powerful strong bite, even compared to other big cats.[1] Because of its strong bite, jaguars can bite capybaras, Brazilian tapir, peccaries, giant anteaters, tamanduas, through armoured reptiles like caimans, crocodiles, turtles and tortoises.[2] Jaguars kill their prey in an unusual way: they bite directly through the skull between the ears and into the brain.[3]
- ↑ Stephen Wroe, Colin McHenry, and Jeffrey Thomason (2006). "Bite club: comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behavior in fossil taxa" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 272 (1563). Royal Society: 619–625. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2986. PMC 1564077. PMID 15817436. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-07.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Hamdig, Paul. "Sympatric Jaguar and Puma". Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ Rosa CL de la and Nocke, 2000. A guide to the carnivores of Central America: natural history, ecology, and conservation. The University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71604-9