JAGUAR

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Context: The jaguar, the great cat of the Americas, has till now been considered a solitary species. But a new study has challenged this commonly held assumption. There is now video and photographic evidence available which shows that wild male jaguars form coalitions, just like their cat cousins lions and cheetahs.

Details:

• The jaguar is found from Mexico to Argentina.
• The species has been eradicated from nearly 50 per cent of its historic habitat.
• Jaguar range is noted as overlapping with most of the Americas’ tropical forests, providing 17 per cent of the world’s carbon storage and sequestration, benefitting 53 million people.