But in 1980, responding to objections, the Service removed jaguars within the United States from the endangered species list — in blatant violation ... Fish Department illegally killed the only known ...

Both animals are on the endangered species list. That’s pretty much where the similarities end. Each is a unique creature as ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. (Update: Big cats can protect humans from the rise of future pandemics. See more in National Geographic News.) At dusk ...

Among the Mojo people of Bolivia, the prime candidates for the job of shaman were men who had survived a jaguar attack. Even today, when the species has been pushed out of more than half its ...

Conservationists first spotted a young male jaguar in 2022 roaming Argentina’s Formosa Nature Reserve. Camera traps later ...

These paintings depict hunting scenes, battles, dances and ceremonies, as well as fauna and flora species, with a particular the worship of the jaguar, a symbol of power and fertility. The indigenous ...

myths and cultural traditions which narrate the history of the man-jaguar relationship, and speak to the importance of preserving this species which finds itself severely threatened.