The jaguar's massively thick skull protects him from death, but the pellets blind him in one eye and shatter his left foreleg. Crippled now, unable to find his normal prey in the scrubby forest ...

A jaguar scans for prey from the cover of tall grasses in the Pantanal. I felt myself swept up in what the poet Dylan Thomas famously described as “the force that through the green fuse drives ...

Wolves can travel hundreds of miles, with territory size thought to be a function of prey density; jaguars likely have similar dynamics. In the arid Southwest, a 10-year resident jaguar appeared to ...

The thing about jaguars is, you don’t want to see one when it’s hungry ... Already a quality outfielder, thanks in part to ...

They often live near water and are good swimmers. A jaguar’s ultra-strong jaws and teeth can bite through a crocodile skull or turtle shell, but they’ll prey on almost any wild animal they come across ...

A male jaguar can weigh up to 136 kg and has stocky build and powerful jaws to take down large prey, like caimans, tapirs, and capybaras. These large cats also combine raw power with remarkable ...

Jaguars kill either by throat-bite suffocation or by seizing their prey at the back of the head and then crunching down through the skull with their canines - also used for breaking through turtle ...

Black Jaguars: Jaguars are fierce and agile animals. They do not back down from a fight and can be very aggressive. They tend ...

But the local jaguars have found a surprising way to adapt, says study co-author Guilherme Alvarenga, a biologist at the Mamirauá Institute. “When the river starts to flood, their prey ...

Without hesitation the jaguar pounced, overcoming its monstrously large prey in minutes. The yacaré caiman and jaguar are both top predators in the Pantanal Wetlands, and struggles like this are not ...