Jaguar: animal of kings

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The jaguar lives in the tropical forests of South and Central America - an animal revered by many ancient peoples. The jaguar was revered, he was worshiped, he was considered the progenitor of the clan, and the skin of the jaguar from time immemorial was considered a sign of not just

high position, but the ability to influence the fate of the people and the tribe. Such an idea of jaguars as demigods was, from the point of view of the ancient peoples, quite justified. This majestic predator in mythology has always been associated with the night, dark forces. The Aztecs contrasted it with the eagle as a symbol of the sun. Just as the sun and moon are always in conflict, so the jaguar and the eagle are constantly fighting, the Indians believed. According to legend, when the shaman left his body, he turned into a jaguar. Therefore, it was believed that even a painted jaguar could save from danger. The animal has long been an object of worship. Moreover, if the ancient Egyptians depicted people with the heads of birds and crocodiles,American Indians - with the heads of jaguars. Perhaps there is no more adapted predator than this animal. The jaguar sees perfectly at night, even better than during the day. Therefore, he has always been associated with darkness, night and magic, as well as power, wild and unbridled.

The fact is that the jaws of the jaguar are so strong that it can easily bite through the shell of a turtle.

Jaguar is an animal from the cat family, so it has similar habits. It has a strong, muscular body, a thick coat, and can range in color from sandy yellow to brown. Despite the fact that at first glance. The spots of the jaguar are located absolutely chaotically, this is not so. The spot itself is a broken black ring or half ring, inside which is a black dot. If you enter the search query "jaguar animal photo", you can see that the beast is not completely covered with spots, but has a striped belly and paws. Interestingly, the famous black panther is a jaguar, which for some reason had a mutation in one of the genes responsible for color.

Jaguar is a solitary animal. He always hunts alone in a certain territory. A female with cubs can occupy a territory up to 25 km, and males - up to 100 km. The jaguar is a thunderstorm of all animals, as it feeds on literally everything that moves and can easily kill a person. But still, this graceful predator prefers ungulates as a meal, although it can start hunting for tapirs, turtles and other animals. The peculiarity of the jaguar is that, although it does not eat all the prey at a time, it does not

throws her like lions and drags her onto tree branches.

Unlike other animals, the jaguar does not have a well-defined breeding season. In this regard, it all depends on the female. A jaguar's pregnancy lasts 100 days. The kittens live with their mother for 6 weeks in the den, and then start hunting together until they find their own territory. Now jaguars are getting smaller and smaller. Deforestation, human expansion into the habitat of these big cats does not contribute to reproduction in any way. In addition, the situation is not improved by poachers who prey on jaguars because of their beautiful fur and sharp fangs. In order to preserve the population, the jaguar was listed in the Red Book.

The jaguar is the result of a long process of evolution and adaptation to the environment, so there are no hunters equal to it in the Amazon forests.