What affects us affects cats
Are jaguars dangerous? Yes (obvious). Are jaguars endangered? Yes (IUCN Red List classification: Near Threatened which in layperson’s terms means endangered). Are jaguars and panthers the same? They can be because the word “panthers” is used sometimes to describe black jaguars. Are jaguars and leopards the same? No but they looks very similar. Are …
Google tells me that people want to know how many Jaguars (the cat!) there are in Costa Rica. It is actually a very difficult question because I don’t think anybody is courageous enough or silly enough to actually provide a firm number. The clever ones, the experts, can’t even provide a firm number or …
NEWS AND VIEWS: You might have thought that I was discussing a genetically mutated jaguar in Belize and Guatemala which has a short tail very similar to that of the bobcat but I’m not. This beautiful jaguar had, at one time, a normal tail. He lost it somewhere along the way but the experts …
News.com.au is probably taking the piss but they might be genuine but mistaken. They have a story about a university student capturing on video a large, black domestic cat (in my considered view) which has been described as a “black panther”. Black panthers normally refer to melanistic jaguars i.e. black jaguars. If the phrase …
No, jaguars do not kill gorillas in the wild because there are no gorillas for the jaguar to kill in the places where it lives. Gorillas are only found in Central Africa including Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic Of The Congo and Cameroon. The Jaguar lives in Central and South America and Mexico, …
Yes, if sloths are available, jaguars will feed on them. The jaguar’s diet reflects the relative abundance of prey species in the area in which they live, which naturally varies from area to area. Jaguars are opportunistic predators. They are capable of killing and eating almost any type of prey they encounter. The list …
As the jaguar has the highest bite force of all the cats, it has a third and brutal way of killing prey in addition to the neck and throat bite. The neck bite breaks the spine. The throat bite suffocates prey. The jaguar’s way is to insert its canine teeth directly into the prey’s …
This young black panther (probably a black jaguar) is having a hard time living in the human environment. Firstly, and we don’t know how, she ended up as a pet in somebody’s home in northen France and then escaped onto the roof resulting in an alarming photograph which you can see below about which …
