Jaguars

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Jaguars

• by George Tomas

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Are they easy to find

• The total number of jaguars throughout their
  range is unknown.

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Endangered

• The Endangered Species act requires the US
  federal goverment to identify species that are
  threatened.  The Jaguar is on that list.

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what it eats

• Deer, peccary, crocodiles, snakes, monkeys,
  slothes, tapirs, turtles eggs, frogs, fish and
  anything it can catch.

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what they look like

• Height 2 1/4 to  2 1/2 feet 
• length 5 1/2 feet from nose to tip of tail 
• wight 100 250 lbs
• color is yellow, tan, brown, or black

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How does it gets its food

• Hunts mostly on the ground but sometimes climbs a
  tree and
• pounces on  its prey from above.

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Where it lives

• Arizona
• New Mexico
• Texas
• Mexico 
• Forest
• rainforest
• swamps
• grassland
• mountain scrub areas.

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Threats

• Human population growth 
• agricultural expansion 
• hunting and poaching by livestock ranchers.