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A symbol of the enigmatic power of the Amazon, the jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas. Jaguars have unusually large, round heads, short legs and a stunning coat dotted with dark rosettes and spots.

Jaguars often live in tropical lowlands, preferably close to water such as rivers and inland wetlands. In the past, jaguars could be found from the south-western USA to the scrub grasslands of Argentina. Sadly, they have lost half of their historic range mainly due to habitat loss.

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Today, the Amazon is the largest strongholds for tis predator. Around 50% of jaguars are found in Brazil alone, and the rest of the jaguar populations live in the remaining 17 countries, 8 of which share the Amazon rainforest: Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, and the oversea territory of French Guiana.

The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at a terrifying rate. Along with other consequences, this reduces the living space for jaguars and other important wildlife, and isolates populations, making them more vulnerable.

When their natural prey is hunted or displaced, jaguars might look for other food sources, like domestic cattle. A lot of ranchers and farmers see jaguars as pests, and sometimes kill them to protect their incomes.

Yet today, jaguars have been almost eliminated from the United States and populations in Central and South America are falling because of habitat destruction, trophy hunting and conflict with humans. For jaguars to make a comeback in the United States, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must revise its recovery plan to support the restoration of jaguars to the full array of ecological settings that they occupied before they were eradicated.

Defenders is advocating that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service adopt more meaningful recovery criteria to help the jaguars recover in a greater portion of their range in the American Southwest. That includes evaluating all potential jaguar habitat in its historic range, including north of Interstate 10.

Defenders is advancing innovative, community-based non-lethal methods for lessening human-carnivore conflict, such as the use of range riders and fladry, some of which techniques may work for jaguars.

At the international level, Defenders is advocating for international policy measures that will enforce the international ban on the trade of jaguars and jaguar parts and products. Defenders provides ongoing support for Latin American countries to fight the illegal trade and is a sponsor of the first range states jaguar workshop in Bolivia in 2019.

Jaguars are being killed because of perceived conflicts with livestock and overhunted for trophies and as a substitute for tiger bones in Asia. Habitat loss is also a big problem for the northern population and the U.S.-Mexico border wall threatens to block jaguar migration routes.

Jaguars are solitary animals and live and hunt alone, except during mating season. The jaguar hunts mostly on the ground, but it sometimes climbs a tree and pounces on its prey from above. Unlike most big cats, the jaguar loves the water.

There are recreated ruins and amazing animals like the endangered jaguars, giant anteaters, spider monkeys, macaws, and Brazilian ocelots. Look for Maya symbols throughout the exhibit including those for jaguars, fish, and bats!

Jaguars prowl the imagination: Sleek, powerful, and elusive, jaguars stalk the Americas and are revered by all who share their realm. Their mesmerizing gaze and hunting prowess have earned them a prominent place in mythology and legend. Their beauty, strength, and adaptability have earned them the respect of feline admirers around the world. Jaguars are some pretty cool cats.

A mother jaguar raises her cubs alone. One to four cubs are born with coarse, wooly fur and eyes closed, opening at 3 to 13 days. Their teeth appear by one month of age. By the time they are six to eight weeks old, cubs are able to follow their mother. They continue to nurse until they are five to six months old, although they eat meat caught by their mother. Male cubs grow more quickly than their female siblings, and by about two years old, they are about 50 percent heavier. The youngsters start to hunt on their own by 15 to 18 months of age, but continue to stay near their mother until they are about two years old, when they are ready to claim their own territory.

Jaguars are among the top predators in their habitat, so the adult cats don't have much to fear other than humans. The coats of jaguars have always been important to people who share their habitat. Unfortunately, the demand for jaguar skins spread to the outside world. Commercial fur hunting, especially in the 1960s, took a terrible toll on jaguars. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) now outlaws the sale of jaguar skins internationally. Unfortunately, jaguar coats are still illegally bought and sold in countries where jaguars live.

Another problem for jaguars is loss of habitat. With less and less prey available to them, jaguars have started feeding on livestock. Ranchers often respond by trapping and poisoning them. Other threats to jaguars involve deforestation due to logging, mining, and farming, which breaks up their habitat into fragments, leaving less food and fewer mates. Estimates say that there are about 10,000 jaguars left in the American wilderness, but their numbers are decreasing rapidly.

To help the last of the American big cats, we first must find out more about where they live, how large their territories are, and how they spend their days and raise their young. Conservation scientists use trail cameras, which take a photo when something crosses in front of the camera, and place radio collars on some jaguars to track their daily movements. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance partners with the Latin American conservationists to study, monitor, and protect jaguars, and we hope to decrease human-jaguar conflict.

In 1958, an archaeologist uncovered a carved conch shell pendant in a rock-and-earth mound in Missouri. This gorget revealed unmistakable features of a jaguar: the nature of its spots, body shape, head, ears, and tail. Although no one knows the exact age or origin, it parallels important religious motifs seen throughout Mesoamerica, where the jaguar is a powerful symbol of the underworld and figured in countless Mayan glyphs. NJP received permission from the University of Missouri to use the image as our logo.

Jaguars need vast areas to maintain viable populations. While Peru has a large network of protected areas, these alone are not sufficient to ensure the long-term survival of jaguars, and maintaining connectivity among these protected areas is an important part of a long-term conservation strategy. Solitary, elusive, and often nocturnal, jaguars have proven difficult to study, especially in dense or remote habitats. Trail cameras not only allow us to document the presence of jaguars, but we can identify individuals by their unique coat patterns, allowing us to count them. GPS satellite collars give us even more detailed information on their movements, and interactions among individuals.

We work with logging companies to help show the value that responsibly managed logging concessions provide as jaguar habitat. And we work with Rainforest Expeditions, a tourism company, to run one of the largest camera trap grids to study long-term population dynamics of jaguars in a protected area.

Despite the fact that the Amazon is the largest remaining habitat for jaguars, very little is known about their use of habitat, their home range size, and their diets. We use a range of novel technologies to look at the ecology of jaguars in the Amazon. GPS collars give us detailed data on the movement and area requirements of the species, while new genetic methods allow us to obtain information on the diet and population genetics from fecal samples. All this information is crucial for improving monitoring strategies and informing conservation efforts.

Jaguars are found in rainforests, seasonally flooded forests, grasslands, woodlands and dry deciduous forests throughout their range. Jaguars spend much of their time on the ground. They use their padded paws to move silently through the forest floor. Although not quite as agile as a leopard, jaguars are capable of climbing trees to hunt or to rest.

Jaguars are mostly nocturnal hunters. They use their excellent vision and sharp teeth to ambush prey and crush their skulls. Jaguars are known to eat more than 85 species of prey, including armadillos, peccaries, capybara, tapir, deer, squirrels, birds and even snails. Not confined to hunting on land, jaguars are adept at snatching fish, turtles and young caiman from the water. They are even able to hunt monkeys and other tree-dwellers who occasionally wander to lower branches. Unfortunately, jaguars compete with humans for most of their prey. In many regions they are shot on sight because of fear, concern for livestock or competition for prey. 006ab0faaa