. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. UAlllTS OF TEE ree Tom Cat. Even the ; prevent us from .starting ..^ tlic door, growling and "swearing" like a very large and knowledge of the strong ii-on door between us and the Jaguar could back, there was something so suggcotive, in the beast's locks, of being tcru to pieces and devoured. Tlie Jaguar is found iu North and South America, extending from the Southern regions of the Unitetl St:>tes, tlu'ough Mexico, Central Amei-ica, and Brazil, as far south as Paraguay. Of its habits, occurrenc:?, &c., t
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. UAlllTS OF TEE ree Tom Cat. Even the ; prevent us from .starting ..^ tlic door, growling and "swearing" like a very large and knowledge of the strong ii-on door between us and the Jaguar could back, there was something so suggcotive, in the beast's locks, of being tcru to pieces and devoured. Tlie Jaguar is found iu North and South America, extending from the Southern regions of the Unitetl St:>tes, tlu'ough Mexico, Central Amei-ica, and Brazil, as far south as Paraguay. Of its habits, occurrenc:?, &c., t!i3 following interesting account is given by Mr. Darwin :*— "Tlie wooded banks of the great rivers t:> be ths favourite haunts of the Jaguar; but. south of the Plata, I was told that they frequented the re?ds bordering lakes. Wherever they are, they seem to i-etjuire water. Their common prey is tlie Capybara, so that it is generally said, where Capybaras are numerous there is little danger from the Jaguar. Falconer states that near the southern side of the mouth of the Plata there arc many Jaguar.^, and that they chiefly live on lish. This account I have heard repeated. On the Parana they have killed iiriny wood-cutters, and have even entered vessels at night. There is a man now living in Rnjada, who, coming up from below when it was dark, was seized on the deck ; lie cscuiMd, lidwcvn-, with the loss of the use of one arm. When the floods drive these auinuds fioni the isLimls, they are most dangerous. I was told that, a few years since, a vei-y large one found its way into a church at Santa Fe : two padres entering one after the other were killed, and a third, who came to see what was , escaped with difficult}'. The beast was destroyed by being shot from a corner of the building, which was unroofed. They commit also at these times great ravages among Horses and * "Naturalist's Voyn^e.'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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