Super rare white jaguar cubs born at zoo

Adam Khor

They are, interestingly, the offspring of a normal colored male and a melanistic female. White (leucistic, not albino) jaguars are exceedingly rare and to date, have never been photographed or filmed in the wild.

http://travel.aol.co.uk/2012/03/09/meet-the-worlds-first-jaguar-cubs-born-in-captivity-at-zoo-in-germany/

Galvasean

WANT!

Birdnuts

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:

Adam Khor

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 They look like weightlifters, very stocky, powerful beasts.

Birdnuts

Adam Khor wrote: »

They are really amazing They look like weightlifters, very stocky, powerful beasts.

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.

Adam Khor

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:

hairyprincess

They are gorgeous! I have two kittens, I wonder would they get along?

Adam Khor

hairyprincess wrote: »

They are gorgeous! I have two kittens, I wonder would they get along?

With the jags? :rolleyes:

Mickeroo

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

Galvasean

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

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

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

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...