Talk:Jaguar/Archive 1
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I notice the info on the most powerful big cat goes back and forth between the jaguar and the tiger. I think it's starting to become more of a "love for jaguars vs. tigers" thing. People, come on. The Siberian tiger is the largest cat, but the average African lion can get bigger than a simple Bengal. Just because it is the largest, it is not the most heavily built, does not have the strongest bite (let's study the anatomy of the jaw structure) and is not the most powerful. We can even compare the largest in which the animals have taken down for prey, with a single tiger having been documented taking down a 600 pound water buffalo on record, lions have documented taking down elephants but only in prides, tigers single handedly taking down elephant calves around the 600 pound ratio. The largest kill documented for a jaguar was a domestic bull in Mexico weighing over 1000 pounds. Furthermore, I have many text books on the big cats. Two seperate books will say two seperate things, with one saying the tiger is the strongest, and another saying the jaguar. I decided to go by which books were closest to modern research/publishes earliest and it says jaguar. So if you love tigers or jaguars, let's not make this personal, tigers are strong and deffinately more man killing, but new research points to the jaguar being strongest.
I changed the habitat of jaguars from central and south america to "warm regions of America", because they also live in the sonoran desert, which lies in north-America ( Sonora and Arizona). We are getting more and more sightings of them in north Mexico, and there are many of them being run over by cars. While most animals around the sierra are dissapearing, there seems to be more Jaguars. Can it be that they getting closer to water supplies near inhabitated areas because of the weird drought fromt he last years? (which by the way could be caused by us humans and our pollution), or are lodging and contamination haven a possitive effect on their population numbers? Any zoologists around here who can answer this questions?
I thought panthers/black panthers were all leopards. No?
Should we really have a big photo of them mating? Little riske, I must say.
- Agree. It has been replaced with a photo of a single melanistic individual. 69.47.229.237 4 July 2005 20:01 (UTC)
- Strongly disagree. Come on the BBC shows films of big cats mating at tea time. Cats kill, eat, and mate - that's about it really. Let's not be prudish. This is an encylopedia. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 4 July 2005 21:10 (UTC)
- To be fair, cats spend quite a lot of time sleeping too. But I quite agree the content of the mating picture was fine, its only real problem was a lack of copyright tags and source information. -- Solipsist 4 July 2005 23:34 (UTC)
WHAT ARE FEMALE JAGUARS CALLED THX
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In portuguese, "jaguar" means the US equivalent of the "black jaguar" or "melanistic jaguar". The equivalent to the US term jaguar would be "onça" or "onça-pintada"LtDoc 05:38, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
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Jaguars are rich yellow to rusty red, some are white and very rarely are black. They like eating humans. But hardly ever do. only when they are cornered they will eat the jaguar species. But the jaguars are hunted for theyre skin and beatiful coat for alot of money, the animal is now iendnageded beacause veryone is buying the skjins and now there is a demand for it.
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I changed the line claiming the jaguar is the most powerful cat to the jaguar is the most powerful cat after the lion and tiger. Although pound for pound it is the most powerful cat, it is not a powerful as an African lion, Bengal tiger, or Amur tiger. Pound for pound a wolverine is more powerful than a brown bear but this does not mean that the wolverine is stronger.
I changed the Jaguar's physical characteristics to those that are correct and cited verifiable sources. Also added references to factual information contributed by other wikipedia users. I plan to organize this article with headings and expand on it. Remember include factual information and please cite references.Malix 18:49 EST, December 4, 2005.