Here is a table comparing the leopard and jaguar. Why compare these cat species? Because they are very similar in appearance and not infrequently mixed up by observers. They actually live in completely different places which is a little surprising considering they are hard to tell apart sometimes.
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Leopard vs Jaguar
The pictures are by: leopard – By Sumeet Moghe – File:African_leopard_male.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107561790. Jaguar – By USFWS – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Digital Library System, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=314152.
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