what are some of the characteristics of the jaguar
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The jaguar is a compact and well-muscled animal. It is the largest cat native to the Americas and the third largest in the world, exceeded in size only by the tiger and the lion. Its coat ranges from pale yellow to tan or reddish-yellow, while the ventral areas are whitish.
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The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large felid species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. Its distinctively marked coat features pale yellow to tan colored fur covered by spots that transition to darker rosettes on the sides. With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in), it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world. Its powerful bite allows it to pierce the carapaces of turtles and tortoises, and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of mammalian prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain.
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Jaguars stand out for their large head with a not very prominent snout; large, incisive-looking eyes and short, wide and rounded ears. The neck is short but muscular, as well as their muscular trunk; strong limbs; anterior limbs with five-fingered hands and posterior limbs with four toes, all of which with strong claws. It has a thick, cylindrical tail, well proportioned in relation to body length. The color of the base coat and spots is very similar to that of the leopard (large black spots on a yellow background). It is estimated that jaguars are only 1.2 times longer than cougars, but with jaws that are 1.6 times stronger, which allows them to kill larger prey with a single bite in the neck or the cranium. (Carrillo 2000).