Jaguar
Amazing fact
Some jaguars have black coats with black spots.
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Some jaguars have black coats with black spots.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Jaguar
- Scientific name
- Panthera onca
- Japanese name
- ジャガー
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Felidae
- Genus
- Panthera
A big cat of the tropical rainforests from the southern part of North America to South America.
It looks like a leopard, but it has a bigger body, and there are black dots inside its black spots.
It lives alone in forests and woods along rivers. Its jaws are so strong that it can even crack turtle shells.
How the Jaguar lives
It is most active around dawn and dusk. It pounces on prey from a concealed spot. It drags its prey to a secluded place to eat. It rests in deep shade or beneath thick vegetation, among other places.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Size
- Head and body length: 110–180 cmShoulder height: 84 cm
- Weight
- 40–160 kg
- Lifespan
- 15–20 years
- Diet
- Deer, monkeys, tapirs, capybaras, fish, crocodilians, turtles and others
- Range
- Southern North America to South America
Where the Jaguar has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ジャガー
- 简体中文
- 美洲豹
- 繁體中文
- 美洲豹
- 한국어
- 재규어
- Español
- Jaguar
- Français
- Jaguar
- Deutsch
- Jaguar
- Português (Brasil)
- Onça-pintada
- Italiano
- Giaguaro
- हिन्दी
- जैगुआर
- العربية
- يغور
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Jaguar
- Tiếng Việt
- Báo đốm Mỹ
- Русский
- Ягуар
- Türkçe
- Jaguar
- ไทย
- เสือจากัวร์
- বাংলা
- জাগুয়ার
- اردو
- جیگوار
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 日本平動物園 — ジャガーChecked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Panthera oncaChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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