Jaguar – big spotted cat
The jaguar is the largest living member of the cat family in North and South America and the third largest in the world.
Its coat is yellow–brown with black spots and rosettes, or rings, encircling spots. An average adult jaguar has a head and body length of 1.2 to 1.8 meters and a tail length of 46 to 76 centimeters. It stands about 0.7 meter high at its shoulder and weighs between 45 and 115 kilograms.
Jaguars are good swimmers, runners, and tree climbers. They eat fish, frogs, turtles, small alligators, iguanas, peccaries, monkeys, birds, deer, dogs, and cattle.
They are solitary mammals, so males and females come together only to mate. A female jaguar gives birth to a litter of one to four cubs, and they may stay with her for up to two years.
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