These solitary hunters are equipped with strong jaws capable of piercing skulls, making them one of the most formidable predators. Weighing between 100 to 250 pounds, jaguars possess a muscular ...

Maestro Juan Flores’s apprentices brought my passport to the spirit world of jaguars in a small plastic chalice. It contained “la medicina,” a syrupy brown decoction of chacruna leaves and ...

These four animals are the only animals that roar. The leopard and jaguar are fierce predators and protectors of their habitat. Solitary creatures, the only time you’ll likely see them ...

But conserving them is a challenge. Jaguars need large areas of forest, and people often feel threatened by these cats and fear for their livestock. However, as top predators jaguars are key for a ...

Not long ago, most of this area was an unbroken expanse of green dominated by top predators like jaguars and harpy eagles. In the middle of the food chain were animals like howler monkeys which ...

Jaguars virtually disappeared from this part of their range over the past 150 years, primarily due to habitat loss and historic government predator control programs intended to protect the livestock ...