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Science Coronavirus Coverage How antivirals may change the course of the pandemic. The male's homerange is between 19 to 53 square miles. The female's homerange is between 10 to 37 square miles.
A male jaguar may share his home range with several females. He will aggressively protect his homerange from other males to ensure that any females in his territory mate only with him.
The Jaguar, unlike most big cats, loves the water. It often swims, bathes and plays in streams and pools. It will also hunt for fish in the water. Jaguar - Panthera onca. Experts debate how important this habitat is for overall jaguar survival, but some conservationists in the state argue that Arizona could be important habitat for the big cats as the climate warms and prey move north.
The only known jaguar in the United States today is a young male nicknamed "El Jefe. Biologists have also tracked his movements using a specially trained scat-sniffing dog. Macho B was euthanized in after an attempt to trap and radio-collar the elderly jaguar went wrong. The death of Macho B was a major scandal for Arizona's Fish and Game Department and led to a criminal investigation for the killing of an endangered species.
Other jaguar sightings in the state have been few and far between. The last known female jaguar in the United States was shot in by a hunter who mistook her for a bobcat.
Jaguars are loners that only spend time with others of their kind when they are mating or taking care of cubs.
To keep other jaguars at bay, they mark their territory with urine or by marking trees with their claws. The jaguar is a top-level predator. It doesn't have any natural predators other than humans, who hunt them for their fur or sport. Their name comes from the Native American word "yajuar. They catch their prey by the head and chop down to make the kill. Jaguars hunt both in the day and at night and usually travel up to 10km over 6 miles a night when hunting.
Jaguars have a more powerful bite than any other big cat. Their teeth are strong enough to bite through the thick hides of crocodilians and the hard shells of turtles. They need powerful teeth and jaws to take down prey three to four times their own weight - usually killing it with a bite to the back of the skull rather than biting the neck or throat like other big cats. Like other cats, their tongues have sharp-pointed bumps, called papillae, which are used to scrape meat off bones.
Pregnancy lasts around 14 weeks, then the female usually gives birth to two cubs though she can have up to four. Deforestation rates are high in South America, both for logging and to clear space for cattle ranching.
This results in many new threats to jaguars, from the loss of their home to isolating their populations, making breeding harder. This leads them to hunt livestock and be killed by people. Though demand for their skins has declined since the mids, jaguar paws, teeth and other parts are still sought after, mostly from China for traditional medicine and ornaments.
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