THE JAGUAR. The most dreaded denizen of the forests of the New World is the Jaguar. It attacks mammals and birds, from the largest to the smallest ; devours Turtles, and will lie on a tree branch on the bank oi a running stream, watching for big fish which it frequently. succeeds in catching in the manner portrayed in the picture. It is stated as a singular fact that the Jaguar never attacks the Electrical Eel that abounds in South American waters, seeming to know that its only reward would be a shock. (Felis onca.) (123)
Date 1895
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6220676586
Author Brehm, Alfred Edmund; Haacke, Wilhelm; Pechuël-Loesche, Eduard; Schmidtlein, Richard.
Full title Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brehm%27s_Life_of_animals_(Page_123)_(6220676586).jpg
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat which is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. |
