The jaguar is the largest feline of the Americas. The jaguar swims well and lives in habitats where there is plenty of water like rainforests or seasonally flooded swamp areas like the Pantanal in Brazil. It is an endagered species because of hunting and human occupation and destruction of their natural habitat.

In the Brazilian Pantanal males average 100 kg and females 76 kg. The Jaguar has golden or brownish-yellow fur and many black spots. It has a large head and stocky build, with relatively short limbs.
The jaguar eats large prey, such as peccaries, tapirs and deer, but it will eat almost anything it can catch. In areas where cattle are raised in jaguar natural habitat cattle are often their most frequent prey species.


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