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Super rare white jaguar cubs born at zoo

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  • #2
    Galvasean
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    WANT! :D


  • #3
    Birdnuts
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    Pound for Pound Jags are the most powerfull of the big cats out there - that mother alone looks like she could take on a Grizzly!!:cool:


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    Adam Khor
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    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Pound for Pound Jags are the most powerfull of the big cats out there - that mother alone looks like she could take on a Grizzly!!:cool:

    They are really amazing :D They look like weightlifters, very stocky, powerful beasts.
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  • #5
    Birdnuts
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    They are really amazing :D They look like weightlifters, very stocky, powerful beasts.
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTurl9v7r_LVkt7-6NXIFFYGILCnt2vUZ_-I-AjdPpYFlK3l2KL

    They can overpower the likes of Tapirs,black bears, large Caymens(South American Crocs basically) and Anacondas in the wild - every other predator including Pumas give them a wide berth.


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    Adam Khor
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    Birdnuts wrote: »
    They can overpower the likes of Tapirs, large Caimens and Anacondas in the wild - every other predator including Pumas give them a wide berth.

    Don´t forget horses and feral cattle- I read an account of a 60 kg jaguar in Venezuela killing a 500 kg feral bull in the blink of an eye. Usual jaguar strategy; biting directly through the skull, piercing the brain. :eek:


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  • #7
    hairyprincess
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    They are gorgeous! I have two kittens, I wonder would they get along?


  • #8
    Adam Khor
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    hairyprincess wrote: »
    They are gorgeous! I have two kittens, I wonder would they get along?

    With the jags? :rolleyes:


  • #9
    Mickeroo
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    Stunning animals for sure. What a stroke of luck to have not one but two born in a zoo!


  • #10
    Galvasean
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    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Don´t forget horses and feral cattle- I read an account of a 60 kg jaguar in Venezuela killing a 500 kg feral bull in the blink of an eye. Usual jaguar strategy; biting directly through the skull, piercing the brain. :eek:


    There is also fossil evidence of a jaguar biting through the armoured head of a glyptodont

    2701681653_91a20ff0a0.jpg


  • #11
    Adam Khor
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    Galvasean wrote: »
    There is also fossil evidence of a jaguar biting through the armoured head of a glyptodont

    2701681653_91a20ff0a0.jpg

    I remember that :> Not surprising if we consider that they bite through turtle caparaces and caiman skulls and armor with incredible ease :cool:
    Plus, jaguars were larger back then...


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