#0278 · 🦊 mammals

Jaguar

Panthera onca

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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3. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
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8. © Pedro Igor Monteiro · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The jaguar ( Panthera onca ), also known in South America as (painted) onça , 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. Though there are single cats now living within the western United States, the species has largely been extirpated from the United States since the early 20th century. It is listed as...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,071iNaturalist observations
weight 800 gadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
9,071 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 800 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).