Jaguar, Panthera onca, native to Central and South Americas, known to the indigenous peoples as the yaguara or jaguarete. Le jaguar, Felis onza. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Th. Goetz from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1815. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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