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The jaguar ( Panthera onca) is a large species and the only member of the genus that is native to the . With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the biggest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world. Its distinctively marked features pale yellow to tan colored fur covered by spots that transition to rosettes on the sides, although a black coat appears in some individuals. The jaguar's powerful bite allows it to pierce the carapaces of and , and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain.

The modern jaguar's ancestors probably entered the Americas from during the Early Pleistocene via the that once spanned the . Today, the jaguar's range extends from the Southwestern United States across and much of , the Amazon rainforest and south to and northern . It inhabits a variety of forested and open terrains, but its preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, and wooded regions. It is adept at swimming and is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush . As a , it plays an important role in stabilizing and in regulating prey populations.

The jaguar is threatened by , habitat fragmentation, for trade with its body parts and killings in human–wildlife conflict situations, particularly with in Central and . It has been listed as on the IUCN Red List since 2002. The wild population is thought to have declined since the late 1990s. Priority areas for jaguar conservation comprise 51 Jaguar Conservation Units (JCUs), defined as large areas inhabited by at least 50 breeding jaguars. The JCUs are located in 36 geographic regions ranging from Mexico to Argentina.

The jaguar has featured prominently in the mythology of indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of the and Maya civilizations.


Etymology
The word "jaguar" is possibly derived from the word yaguara meaning 'wild beast that overcomes its prey at a bound'.
(1975). 9780800883249, Taplinger Publishing.
In North America, the word is pronounced disyllabic , while in British English, it is pronounced with three syllables .
(2025). 9781890000097, Danaan Press.
Because that word also applies to other animals, indigenous peoples in Guyana call it jaguareté, with the added sufix eté, meaning "true beast". "Onca" is derived from the Portuguese name onça for a spotted cat that is larger than a ; cf. . The word "panther" is derived from panthēra, itself from the πάνθηρ ().


Taxonomy and evolution

Taxonomy
In 1758, described the jaguar in his work and gave it the Felis onca.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, several jaguar formed the basis for descriptions of . In 1939, Reginald Innes Pocock recognized eight subspecies based on the geographic origins and skull morphology of these specimens. Pocock did not have access to sufficient zoological specimens to critically evaluate their subspecific status but expressed doubt about the status of several. Later consideration of his work suggested only three subspecies should be recognized. The description of P. o. palustris was based on a skull.

By 2005, nine subspecies were considered to be valid taxa:

  • P. o. onca was a jaguar from Brazil.
  • P. o. peruviana was a jaguar skull from Peru.
  • P. o. hernandesii was a jaguar from Mazatlán in Mexico.
  • P. o. palustris was a jaguar excavated in the Sierras Pampeanas of Córdova District, Argentina.
  • P. o. centralis was a skull of a male jaguar from Talamanca, Costa Rica.
  • P. o. goldmani was a jaguar skin from Yohatlan in , Mexico.
  • P. o. paraguensis was a skull of a male jaguar from Paraguay.
  • P. o. arizonensis was a skin and skull of a male jaguar from the vicinity of Cibecue, Arizona.
  • P. o. veraecrucis was a skull of a male jaguar from San Andrés Tuxtla in Mexico.

Reginald Innes Pocock placed the jaguar in the Panthera and observed that it shares several morphological features with the ( P. pardus). He, therefore, concluded that they are most closely related to each other. Results of morphological and research indicate a clinal north–south variation between populations, but no evidence for subspecific differentiation. analysis of 84 jaguar samples from South America revealed that the between jaguar populations in was high in the past. Since 2017, the jaguar is considered to be a , though the modern Panthera onca onca is still distinguished from two fossil subspecies, Panthera onca augusta and Panthera onca mesembrina. However, the 2024 study suggested that the validity of subspecific assignments on both P. o. augusta and P. o. mesembrina remains unresolved, since both fossil and living jaguars show a considerable variation in .


Evolution
The Panthera lineage is estimated to have genetically diverged from the of the around to .
(2025). 9780199234455, Oxford University Press.
Some genetic analyzes place the jaguar as a to the lion with which it diverged , but other studies place the lion closer to the leopard.

The lineage of the jaguar appears to have originated in Africa and spread to Eurasia 1.95–1.77 mya. The living jaguar species is often suggested to have descended from the Eurasian Panthera gombaszoegensis. The ancestor of the jaguar entered the American continent via , the land bridge that once spanned the , Some authors have disputed the close relationship between P. gombaszoegensis (which is primarily known from Europe) and the modern jaguar. The oldest fossils of modern jaguars ( P. onca) have been found in North America dating between 850,000-820,000 years ago. Results of mitochondrial DNA analysis of 37 jaguars indicate that current populations evolved between 510,000 and 280,000 years ago in northern South America and subsequently recolonized North and Central America after the extinction of jaguars there during the .

Two extinct subspecies of jaguar are recognized in the fossil record: the North American P. o. augusta and South American P. o. mesembrina.


Description
The jaguar is a compact and muscular animal. It is the largest cat native to the Americas and the third largest in the world, exceeded in size only by the tiger and the lion. It stands tall at the shoulders. Its size and weight vary considerably depending on sex and region: weights in most regions are normally in the range of . Exceptionally big males have been recorded to weigh as much as .
(2025). 9780789477644, Dorling Kindersley.
The smallest females from Middle America weigh about . It is sexually dimorphic, with females typically being 10–20% smaller than males. The length from the nose to the base of the tail varies from . The tail is long and the shortest of any .
(1999). 9780801857898, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Its muscular legs are shorter than the legs of other Panthera species with similar body weight.

Size tends to increase from north to south. Jaguars in the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve on the Pacific coast of central Mexico weighed around . Jaguars in Venezuela and are much larger, with average weights of about in males and of about in females.

The jaguar's ranges from pale yellow to tan or reddish-yellow, with a whitish underside and covered in black spots. The spots and their shapes vary: on the sides, they become rosettes which may include one or several dots. The spots on the head and neck are generally solid, as are those on the tail where they may merge to form bands near the end and create a black tip. They are elongated on the middle of the back, often connecting to create a median stripe, and blotchy on the belly. These patterns serve as in areas with dense vegetation and patchy shadows. Jaguars living in forests are often darker and considerably smaller than those living in open areas, possibly due to the smaller numbers of large, herbivorous prey in forest areas.

The jaguar closely resembles the leopard but is generally more robust, with stockier limbs and a more square head. The rosettes on a jaguar's coat are larger, darker, fewer in number and have thicker lines, with a small spot in the middle. It has powerful jaws with the third-highest bite force of all felids, after the tiger and the lion. It has an average bite force at the tip of 887.0 Newton and a bite force quotient at the canine tip of 118.6. A jaguar can bite with a force of with the canine teeth and at the notch.


Color variation
jaguars are also known as . The black morph is less common than the spotted one. Black jaguars have been documented in Central and South America. Melanism in the jaguar is caused by deletions in the melanocortin 1 receptor gene and inherited through a . Black jaguars occur at higher densities in tropical rainforest and are more active during the daytime. This suggests that melanism provides camouflage in dense vegetation with high illumination.

In 2004, a camera trap in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains photographed the first documented black jaguar in Northern Mexico. Black jaguars were also photographed in Costa Rica's Alberto Manuel Brenes Biological Reserve, in the mountains of the Cordillera de Talamanca, in Barbilla National Park and in eastern .


Distribution and habitat
In 1999, the jaguar's historic range at the turn of the 20th century was estimated at , stretching from the southern United States through Central America to southern Argentina. By the turn of the 21st century, its global range had decreased to about , with most declines occurring in the southern United States, northern Mexico, northern Brazil, and southern Argentina. Its present range extends from Mexico through Central America to South America comprising , , , , , particularly on the , , , , , , , , , , Brazil, and . It is considered to be in and .

Jaguars have been occasionally sighted in , and , with 62 accounts reported in the 20th century. Between 2012 and 2015, a male vagrant jaguar was recorded in 23 locations in the Santa Rita Mountains. Eight jaguars were photographed in the southwestern US between 1996 and 2024.

The jaguar prefers dense forest and typically inhabits dry , tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and in Central and South America; open, seasonally flooded , dry and historically also in the United States. It has been recorded at elevations up to but avoids . It favors riverine habitat and with dense vegetation cover. In the Mayan forests of Mexico and Guatemala, 11 GPS-collared jaguars preferred undisturbed dense habitat away from roads; females avoided even areas with low levels of human activity, whereas males appeared less disturbed by human population density. A young male jaguar was also recorded in the semi-arid Sierra de San Carlos at a waterhole.


Former range
In the 19th century, the jaguar was still sighted at the North Platte River north of in , in coastal , northern Arizona and New Mexico. Multiple verified zoological reports of the jaguar are known in California, two as far north as Monterey in 1814 and 1826. The only record of an active jaguar den with breeding adults and kittens in the United States was in the Tehachapi Mountains of California prior to 1860. The jaguar persisted in California until about 1860. The last confirmed jaguar in Texas was shot in 1948, southeast of Kingsville, Texas.
(2025). 9781477310021, University of Texas Press. .
In Arizona, a female was shot in the White Mountains in 1963. By the late 1960s, the jaguar was thought to have been extirpated in the United States. Arizona outlawed jaguar hunting in 1969, but by then no females remained, and over the next 25 years only two males were sighted and killed in the state. In 1996, a rancher and hunting guide from Douglas, Arizona came across a jaguar in the Peloncillo Mountains and became a researcher on jaguars, placing trail cameras, which recorded four more jaguars.


Behavior and ecology
The jaguar is mostly active at night and during . However, jaguars living in densely forested regions of the Amazon Rainforest and the are largely active by day, whereas jaguars in the are primarily active by night. The activity pattern of the jaguar coincides with the activity of its main prey species. Jaguars are good swimmers and play and hunt in the water, possibly more than tigers. They have been recorded moving between islands and the shore. Jaguars are also good at climbing trees but do so less often than cougars.


Ecological role
The adult jaguar is an , meaning it is at the top of the and is not preyed upon in the wild. The jaguar has also been termed a , as it is assumed that it controls the population levels of prey such as and mammals and thus maintains the structural integrity of forest systems. However, field work has shown this may be natural variability, and the population increases may not be sustained. Thus, the keystone predator hypothesis is not accepted by all scientists.

The jaguar is with the . In central Mexico, both prey on white-tailed deer, which makes up 54% and 66% of jaguar and cougar's prey, respectively. In northern Mexico, the jaguar and the cougar share the same habitat, and their diet overlaps dependent on prey availability. Jaguars seemed to prefer and calves. In Mexico and Central America, neither of the two cats are considered to be the dominant predator. In South America, the jaguar is larger than the cougar and tends to take larger prey, usually over . The cougar's prey usually weighs between , which is thought to be the reason for its smaller size. This situation may be advantageous to the cougar. Its broader prey niche, including its ability to take smaller prey, may give it an advantage over the jaguar in human-altered landscapes.


Hunting and diet
The jaguar is an obligate carnivore and depends solely on flesh for its nutrient requirements. An analysis of 53 studies documenting the diet of the jaguar revealed that its prey ranges in weight from ; it prefers prey weighing , with the and the being the most selected. When available, it also preys on , southern tamandua, and . In floodplains, jaguars opportunistically take reptiles such as , and . Consumption of reptiles appears to be more frequent in jaguars than in other big cats. One remote population in the Brazilian Pantanal is recorded to primarily feed on aquatic reptiles and fish. The jaguar also preys on livestock in areas where wild prey is scarce. The daily food requirement of a captive jaguar weighing was estimated at of meat.

The jaguar's bite force allows it to pierce the carapaces of the yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle and the yellow-footed tortoise. It employs an unusual killing method: it bites mammalian prey directly through the between the ears to deliver a fatal bite to the brain.

(2025). 9780292716049, University of Texas Press.
It kills capybara by piercing its through the of its skull, breaking its and and penetrating its brain, often through the ears. It has been hypothesized to be an adaptation to cracking open turtle shells; armored reptiles may have formed an abundant prey base for the jaguar following the late Pleistocene extinctions. However, this is disputed, as even in areas where jaguars prey on reptiles, they are still taken relatively infrequently compared to mammals in spite of their greater abundance.

Between October 2001 and April 2004, 10 jaguars were monitored in the southern Pantanal. In the dry season from April to September, they killed prey at intervals ranging from one to seven days; and ranging from one to 16 days in the wet season from October to March.

The jaguar uses a stalk-and-ambush strategy when hunting rather than chasing prey. The cat will slowly walk down forest paths, listening for and stalking prey before rushing or ambushing. The jaguar attacks from cover and usually from a target's blind spot with a quick pounce; the species' ambushing abilities are considered nearly peerless in the animal kingdom by both indigenous people and field researchers and are probably a product of its role as an apex predator in several different environments. The ambush may include leaping into water after prey, as a jaguar is quite capable of carrying a large kill while swimming; its strength is such that carcasses as large as a heifer can be hauled up a tree to avoid flood levels. After killing prey, the jaguar will drag the carcass to a or other secluded spot. It begins eating at the neck and chest. The heart and lungs are consumed, followed by the shoulders.


Social activity
The jaguar is generally except for females with cubs. In 1977, groups consisting of a male, female and cubs, and two females with two males were sighted several times in a study area in the valley; a radio-collared female moved in a of , which partly overlapped with another female. The home range of the male in this study area overlapped with several females. In the Venezuelan Llanos and Brazilian , male coalitions were detected, which marked, defended and invaded territories together, hunted together and mated with several females.

The jaguar uses scrape marks, urine, and feces to mark its territory. The size of home ranges depends on the level of deforestation and human population density. The home ranges of females vary from in the Pantanal to in the Amazon to in the . Male jaguar home ranges vary from in the Pantanal to in the Amazon to in the Atlantic Forest and in the . Studies employing GPS in 2003 and 2004 found densities of only six to seven jaguars per in the Pantanal region, compared with 10 to 11 using traditional methods; this suggests the widely used sampling methods may inflate the actual numbers of individuals in a sampling area. Fights between males occur but are rare, and avoidance behavior has been observed in the wild. In one wetland population with degraded territorial boundaries and more social proximity, adults of the same sex are more tolerant of each other and engage in more friendly and co-operative interactions.

The jaguar /grunts for long-distance communication; intensive bouts of counter-calling between individuals have been observed in the wild. This vocalization is described as "hoarse" with five or six notes. is produced by individuals when greeting, during courting, or by a mother comforting her cubs. This sound is described as low intensity snorts, possibly intended to signal tranquility and passivity. Cubs have been recorded bleating, gurgling and mewing.


Reproduction and life cycle
In captivity, the female jaguar is recorded to reach at the age of about 2.5 years. lasts 7–15 days with an of 41.8 to 52.6 days. During estrus, she exhibits increased restlessness with rolling and prolonged vocalizations. She is an but can also ovulate spontaneously. lasts 91 to 111 days. The male is sexually mature at the age of three to four years.
(1986). 9780912186795, National Wildlife Federation.
His mean volume is 8.6±1.3 ml. of the jaguar is 9.8 years.

In the Pantanal, were observed to stay together for up to five days. Females had one to two cubs. The young are born with closed eyes but open them after two weeks. Cubs are at the age of three months but remain in the birth den for six months before leaving to accompany their mother on hunts. Jaguars remain with their mothers for up to two years. They appear to rarely live beyond 11 years, but captive individuals may live 22 years.

In 2001, a male jaguar killed and partially consumed two cubs in Emas National Park. DNA paternity testing of blood samples revealed that the male was the father of the cubs. Two more cases of infanticide were documented in the northern Pantanal in 2013. To defend against infanticide, the female may hide her cubs and distract the male with courtship behavior.


Attacks on humans
The Spanish feared the jaguar. According to , the indigenous peoples of South America stated that people did not need to fear the jaguar as long as capybaras were abundant. The first official record of a jaguar killing a human in Brazil dates to June 2008. Two children were attacked by jaguars in Guyana. The majority of known attacks on people happened when it had been cornered or wounded.
(2025). 9781588345462, Smithsonian Institution. .


Threats
The jaguar is threatened by and fragmentation of habitat, illegal killing in retaliation for livestock depredation and for illegal trade in jaguar body parts. It is listed as on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the jaguar population has probably declined by 20–25% since the mid-1990s. is a major threat to the jaguar across its range. Habitat loss was most rapid in drier regions such as the Argentine , the arid grasslands of Mexico and the southwestern United States.

In 2002, it was estimated that the range of the jaguar had declined to about 46% of its range in the early 20th century. In 2018, it was estimated that its range had declined by 55% in the last century. The only remaining stronghold is the Amazon rainforest, a region that is rapidly being fragmented by deforestation. Between 2000 and 2012, forest loss in the jaguar range amounted to , with fragmentation increasing in particular in corridors between Jaguar Conservation Units (JCUs). By 2014, direct linkages between two JCUs in Bolivia were lost, and two JCUs in northern Argentina became completely isolated due to deforestation.

In Mexico, the jaguar is primarily threatened by . Its habitat is fragmented in northern Mexico, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula, caused by changes in land use, construction of roads and tourism infrastructure.

(2025). 9780199766987, Oxford University Press.
In Panama, 220 of 230 jaguars were killed in retaliation for predation on livestock between 1998 and 2014. In Venezuela, the jaguar was extirpated in about 26% of its range in the country since 1940, mostly in dry and unproductive scrubland in the northeastern region of Anzoátegui. In Ecuador, the jaguar is threatened by reduced prey availability in areas where the expansion of the road network facilitated access of human hunters to forests. In the Alto Paraná Atlantic forests, at least 117 jaguars were killed in Iguaçu National Park and the adjacent Misiones Province between 1995 and 2008. Some in the Colombian Chocó Department hunt jaguars for consumption and sale of meat. Between 2008 and 2012, at least 15 jaguars were killed by livestock farmers in central Belize.

The international trade of jaguar skins boomed between the end of the Second World War and the early 1970s. Significant declines occurred in the 1960s, as more than 15,000 jaguars were yearly killed for their skins in the alone; the trade in jaguar skins decreased since 1973 when the was enacted. Interview surveys with 533 people in the northwestern Bolivian Amazon revealed that local people killed jaguars out of fear, in retaliation, and for trade. Between August 2016 and August 2019, jaguar skins and body parts were seen for sale in tourist markets in the Peruvian cities of , and . Human-wildlife conflict, opportunistic hunting and hunting for trade in domestic markets are key drivers for killing jaguars in Belize and Guatemala. Seizure reports indicate that at least 857 jaguars were involved in trade between 2012 and 2018, including 482 individuals in Bolivia alone; 31 jaguars were seized in . Between 2014 and early 2019, 760 jaguar fangs were seized that originated in Bolivia and were destined for China. Undercover investigations revealed that the of jaguar body parts is run by Chinese residents in Bolivia.


Conservation
The jaguar is listed on CITES Appendix I, which means that all international commercial trade in jaguars or their body parts is prohibited. Hunting jaguars is prohibited in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, the United States, and Venezuela. Hunting jaguars is restricted in Guatemala and Peru. In Ecuador, hunting jaguars is prohibited, and it is classified as threatened with extinction. In Guyana, it is protected as an endangered species, and hunting it is illegal. In 1986, the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary was established in Belize as the world's first protected area for jaguar conservation.


Jaguar Conservation Units
In 1999, field scientists from 18 jaguar range countries determined the most important areas for long-term jaguar conservation based on the status of jaguar population units, stability of prey base and quality of habitat. These areas, called "Jaguar Conservation Units" (JCUs), are large enough for at least 50 breeding individuals and range in size from ; 51 JCUs were designated in 36 geographic regions including:
  • the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra de Tamaulipas in Mexico
  • the tropical forests extending over Mexico, Belize and Guatemala
  • the Chocó–Darién moist forests from Honduras and Panama to Colombia
  • Venezuelan Llanos
  • northern and in Brazil
  • in Bolivia and Peru
  • Misiones Province in Argentina

Optimal routes of travel between core jaguar population units were identified across its range in 2010 to implement wildlife corridors that connect JCUs. These corridors represent areas with the shortest distance between jaguar breeding populations, require the least possible energy input of dispersing individuals and pose a low mortality risk. They cover an area of and range in length from in Mexico and Central America and from in South America. Cooperation with local landowners and municipal, state, or federal agencies is essential to maintain connected populations and prevent fragmentation in both JCUs and corridors.

(2025). 9781624170713, Nova Science Publishers.
Seven of 13 corridors in Mexico are functioning with a width of at least and a length of no more than . The other corridors may hamper passage, as they are narrower and longer.

In August 2012, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service set aside in Arizona and New Mexico for the protection of the jaguar. The Jaguar Recovery Plan was published in April 2019, in which Interstate 10 is considered to form the northern boundary of the Jaguar Recovery Unit in Arizona and New Mexico.

In Mexico, a national conservation strategy was developed from 2005 on and published in 2016. The Mexican jaguar population increased from an estimated 4,000 individuals in 2010 to about 4,800 individuals in 2018. This increase is seen as a positive effect of conservation measures that were implemented in cooperation with governmental and non-governmental institutions and landowners.

An evaluation of JCUs from Mexico to Argentina revealed that they overlap with high-quality habitats of about 1,500 mammals to varying degrees. Since co-occurring mammals benefit from the JCU approach, the jaguar has been called an . Central American JCUs overlap with the habitat of 187 of 304 regional endemic amphibian and reptile species, of which 19 amphibians occur only in the jaguar range.


Approaches
In setting up protected reserves, efforts generally also have to be focused on the surrounding areas, as jaguars are unlikely to confine themselves to the bounds of a reservation, especially if the population is increasing in size. Human attitudes in the areas surrounding reserves and laws and regulations to prevent poaching are essential to make conservation areas effective.

To estimate population sizes within specific areas and to keep track of individual jaguars, and wildlife tracking telemetry are widely used, and feces are sought out with the help of to study jaguar health and diet.

Current conservation efforts often focus on educating ranch owners and promoting . Ecotourism setups are being used to generate public interest in charismatic animals such as the jaguar while at the same time generating revenue that can be used in conservation efforts. A key concern in jaguar ecotourism is the considerable habitat space the species requires. If ecotourism is used to aid in jaguar conservation, some considerations need to be made as to how existing ecosystems will be kept intact, or how new ecosystems will be put into place that are large enough to support a growing jaguar population.

Conservationists and professionals in Mexico and the United States have established the Northern Jaguar Reserve in northern Mexico. Advocacy for reintroduction of the jaguar to its former range in Arizona and New Mexico have been supported by documentation of natural migrations by individual jaguars into the southern reaches of both states, the recency of extirpation from those regions by human action, and supportive arguments pertaining to biodiversity, ecological, human, and practical considerations.


In culture and mythology
In the pre-Columbian Americas, the jaguar was a symbol of power and strength. In the Andes, a jaguar cult disseminated by the early Chavín culture became accepted over most of today's Peru by 900 .
(2025). 9781439084762, Houghton Mifflin.
The later Moche culture in northern Peru used the jaguar as a symbol of power in many of their ceramics.
(2025). 9781617037955, University Press of Mississippi.
In the in Altiplano Cundiboyacense, the jaguar was considered a sacred animal, and people dressed in jaguar skins during religious rituals.
(2025). 9789581403684, Plaza & Janes Editores Colombia S.A..
The skins were traded with peoples in the nearby Orinoquía Region. The name of the was derived from the words nymy and quyne, meaning "force of the jaguar".

Sculptures with "Olmec were-jaguar" motifs were found on the Yucatán Peninsula in and ; they show stylized jaguars with half-human faces. In the later Maya civilization, the jaguar was known as balam or bolom' in many of the , and was used to symbolize warriors and the elite class for being brave, fierce and strong. The cat was associated with the and its image was used to decorate tombs and grave-good vessels.

The civilization called the jaguar ocelotl and considered it to be the king of the animals. It was believed to be fierce and courageous, but also wise, dignified and careful. The military had two classes of warriors, the ocelotl or and the cuauhtli or and each dressed like their representative animal. In addition, members of the royal class would decorate in jaguar skins. The jaguar was considered to be the animal of the powerful deities and .

(2025). 9781136605130, Routledge.

A gorget depicting a jaguar was found in a in Benton County, Missouri. The gorget shows evenly-engraved lines and measures . Rock drawings made by the , and all over the desert and regions of the American Southwest show an explicitly spotted cat, presumably a jaguar, as it is drawn much larger than an .


See also
  • List of largest cats


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