Baby jaguar....

One of my most favourite pictures. This was taken by foto Natura


The most powerful and largest cat living the rainforests of Guyana . It was worshipped by native jungle tribes as a divine and mystical being. This cat measures up to almost 2 meters without its tail, which can reach another 75cm and it stands up to a height of 60 cm at its shoulders. Its head and body are massive but its legs on the other hand are short and thick. Its beautiful coat is yellowish and sprinkled with dark spots but a few can be entirely black. Jaguars are tropical animals living in the dense rainforest up to 1200 m above sea level. They prefer shady and cool places close to rivers, climb trees occasionally and like to enter into water and are excellent swimmers. Being a cat, their diet consists entirely of meat, which is acquired by fishing and hunting other animals, especially capybara, caimans and small deer. They are solitary animals but mate anytime in the season. Females can have 1 to 4 cubs after a gestation period of around a 100 days. The cubs stay with their mother to the age of two, then they leave her and find their own territory, which often has an area of 25 square km. In captivity, jaguars live to an age of up to 22 years.