The Jaguar's ability to be a top predator is enhanced by its ability to stay concealed while stalking its prey.
Jaguars can hide in plain sight from their prey. But there is one other important attibute of jaguars that allows them to dominate their territories. Jaguars are very adept swimmers and can travel across fast moving bodies of water. They are the third largest of all the known cat species in the world and have a bite that is stronger than almost any other terrestrial mammal. These big cats are able to live in these envrionments for a number of reasons. While they are commonly considered to be found only in dense Latin American rainforests they are also quite at home in various grasslands and the North American desert as well. Jaguars are apex, at the top of the food chain, predators in a large portion of the Americas. It hunts after prey including deer and capibara, it has even been known to pull caiman from the water just to devour them, breaking their necks with its powerful jaws. In the jungles of the Pantanal lives a swift and powerful cat known as the jaguar. The master of its domain, feared and respected by all that roam in its habitat.
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