Jaguar

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Jaguar (Panthera onca): photo by Gary M. Stoltz, 6 December 2001 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

El jaguar tocaba las hojas
con su ausencia fosforescente

The jaguar brushed the leaves
with a luminous absence

Pablo Neruda: from Algunas Bestias (Some Beasts)

 

The destiny-bearing Baby Jaguar
With the white stars on its black belly
Passes through the world night of whispering leaves
In complete darkness, to emerge through that portal

Unchanged: a harbinger of morning.
This is total: the genepool flows with power,
With beauty, riverine. This is as things always have been,
But things are not now ever going to be as they were again.
 

Jaguar distribution in the Americas: image by Tommyknocker, 2007

Jaguar (Panthera onca): photo by Pete Oxford/Minden Pictures, from National Geographic, July 2012

Jaguar (Panthera onca), Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England: photo by Paul Albertella, 23 August 2008

Jaguar (Panthera onca), Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England: photo by James, 19 September 2009



Jaguar (Panthera onca) in the water, Singapore: photo by Roshan Rao, 11 August 2008

Jaguar (Panthera onca), Gramado Zoo, Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: photo by Fåabio Grison, 24 January 2012

Jaguar (Panthera onca): photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1 December 2004

Jaguar (Panthera onca), Zoo d'Amnéville: photo by Emmanuel Faivre,14 May 2006

Jaguar (Panthera onca) at Louisville Zoo: photo by Ltshears, 23 January 2009

A Jaguar (Panthera onca) about to pick up her cub by the neck at the Stone Zoo: photo by John Harrison, 24 August 2008

Jaguars (Panthera onca), juveniles at four months (born 31 August 2009), Salzburg Zoo: photo by Matthias Kabel, 26 December 2009

Jaguars (Panthera onca), juvenile at four months (born 31 August 2009), Salzburg Zoo: photo by Matthias Kabel, 26 December 2009



Jaguars (Panthera onca), juvenile at four months (born 31 August 2009), Salzburg Zoo: photo by Matthias Kabel, 26 December 2009

Melanistic Jaguar (Panthera onca): photo by Ron Singer, 12 February 2002 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)



Melanistic Jaguar (Panthera onca): photo by Bruce McAdam, 29 August 2008