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The jaguarundi is an unusually shaped small cat of the Americas, with an elongated body and uniform coat, whose molecular placement revealed it as a close relative of the puma and cheetah within the p…

The Jaguar Corridor Initiative proposed a range-wide network of corridors linking jaguar populations from Mexico to Argentina, and this overview examines the ongoing effort to verify and refine those…

This overview synthesises evidence on why deterrents, lights, sirens, scent, and visual scarecrows, often lose effectiveness as predators habituate. It examines the behavioural ecology of neophobia an…

Historically the jaguar was divided into many subspecies, but molecular evidence supports treating it as essentially one continuous species. This overview reviews the debate, explaining that phylogeog…

Across much of Latin America jaguars and pumas occur together, and their coexistence is mediated by differences in prey, habitat, and behavior. This overview synthesizes research showing that jaguars…

This overview reviews human-felid conflict involving both jaguars and pumas across smallholder and indigenous landscapes of Central America, where the two cats overlap and complicate attribution of li…

The jaguar has the most powerful bite relative to size among big cats, and this overview synthesizes research linking its robust skull and jaw musculature to a distinctive killing style. Unlike most l…

This overview examines coexistence dynamics in the Pantanal, where high jaguar densities, extensive cattle ranching, and a booming jaguar-tourism industry intersect. It synthesises research on depreda…

This overview examines human-jaguar conflict around the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve and the broader Selva Maya of southern Mexico, a critical node in the jaguar's northern range and the Mesoamerican co…

This overview reviews human-jaguar conflict across Brazil's Cerrado savanna, a rapidly converting agricultural frontier where soy, cattle, and croplands fragment jaguar habitat. It synthesises studies…

Jaguars are monitored across the Americas through camera-trap capture-recapture, and coordinated initiatives increasingly link local surveys into range-wide networks producing comparable density estim…

This overview reviews human-jaguar conflict in Belize, home to important jaguar populations and the Cockscomb Basin reserve, where small-scale ranchers and farmers experience cattle and occasionally o…

The Amazon basin holds the largest remaining expanse of jaguar habitat, and the cat's ecology there differs from open wetlands. This overview synthesizes research on jaguars in continuous rainforest,…

Jaguar populations historically formed a largely connected continental network, but deforestation and barriers are increasingly structuring their genetics. This overview surveys what molecular studies…

Jaguar home ranges vary widely with habitat productivity and prey availability, from compact territories in rich wetlands to vast ranges in drier or less productive forests. This overview synthesizes…

This overview synthesizes telemetry research on jaguars across the contrasting landscapes of the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands and the Amazon forest, where GPS collars have revealed how home-range size,…

At the northern edge of its range in Mexico and the southwestern United States, the jaguar occupies arid borderlands where climate, water availability, and human infrastructure shape persistence. This…

This overview examines the plight of jaguars in Brazil's highly fragmented Atlantic Forest, where tiny, isolated populations face acute conflict pressure. It synthesises studies of depredation on live…

An overview of the jaguar's distinctive predation on aquatic and semi-aquatic prey, especially caiman and capybara in wetland systems like the Pantanal and Llanos. The jaguar's powerful bite, capable…

Understanding how jaguars use human-modified landscapes is key to predicting their response to land-use and climate change. This overview surveys GPS-telemetry and resource-selection research showing…

Where jaguars share land with cattle ranching, depredation drives conflict that threatens the cat through retaliatory killing. This overview synthesizes studies on the patterns and drivers of jaguar p…

This overview reviews market-based incentives that reward ranchers for jaguar-compatible practices, including jaguar-friendly or wildlife-friendly beef certification and premium pricing. It synthesise…

A survey of how jaguars and pumas, the two large cats of the Neotropics, coexist across much of their shared range by partitioning prey, space and time. Jaguars generally take larger prey, including p…

This overview synthesises human-jaguar conflict across the species' range from Mexico to Argentina, where cattle ranching dominates jaguar habitat. It reviews patterns of depredation on calves and adu…

Jaguars are the most water-associated of the big cats in the Americas, and in wetland strongholds they specialize on aquatic and semi-aquatic prey. This overview synthesizes research showing how jagua…

Although associated with wilderness, jaguars increasingly contact human-dominated landscapes as agriculture, ranching and settlement fragment their range across Latin America. This overview synthesise…

At the northern limit of their distribution, in northern Mexico and occasionally the southwestern United States, jaguars persist at low density and high conservation sensitivity. This overview synthes…

This overview examines how the jaguarundi coexists with the several other small cats that share its range, drawing on community ecology studies. Through its diurnal activity, terrestrial habits, prefe…

Dietary studies describe the jaguarundi as a terrestrial hunter taking a high proportion of birds along with small mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates. This overview synthesizes scat and observationa…

The jaguarundi is an unusual, otter-like cat ranging from the southern United States and Mexico through Central America into much of South America east of the Andes. This overview compiles records des…