In Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, there is a song of antiquity which has the phrase “I would like to be the jaguar of your mountains/And take you to my dark cave./ Open your chest there/ And see if you have a heart”.
In South America, the Guaranì Indians had stories of a cat that kills with one leap, yaguara Jaguars do have the strongest jaw structure of any feline. This allows them to deliver a bite through the skull or through the neck of his victim allowing it to kill his next meal after only one leap.
Jaguars are the biggest cats and their only habit has been the New World. They currently are in South America. They are part of the feline family of tigers and lions of which they are the smallest of the three.
In 1914, on the verge of a kill, Theodore Roosevelt said “It was a beautiful picture–the spotted coat of the big, lithe, formidable cat fairly shone as it snarled defiance.
These are solitary hunters that only associate with one another during the breeding season. They hunt deer, crocodiles and really anything on four legs that they are able to pounce upon. They have been recorded to run at speeds of 80 km/h.
