The Jaguar
Location: Amazon
Climate
Adaptations
Threats
Abiotic
Biotic
Rainforest biome
Coordinates
Longitude: 62.2159°W
Latitude: 3.4653°S
The rainforest biome remains warm all year and stays frost-free. The average daily temperatures ranges from 20°C to 25°C.
(NASA, 2023)
Jaguars swim.
Jaguars are powerful.
Jaguars are fast.
Jaguar fur keeps it camouflaged.
Jaguars have large claws.
I'm not kidding!
Jaguars eat fish, so they must be good at swimming!
On their skin, they have black spots, called rosettes, that help camouflage themselves.
The Amazon receives between 1,500 mm and 3,000 mm of rainfall each year.
Is an apex predator.
They can run up to 70 km/h.
They must be fast, so that they can hunt prey.
The anaconda, a type of snake that is eaten by the jaguar, has venom and could kill a jaguar.
Humans are clearing the Amazon, resulting in habitat loss.
In order to save the jaguars from extinction, we have to stop deforestation.
It can be killed though.
Food chain
The jaguar is an apex predator. They regulate the population of their prey (fish, snakes, etc.) who then regulate the population of their prey, and so on.
Yes, this might sound disgusting, but jaguar faeces does provide nutrients (like fiber) to plants.