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04-08-2020, 06:05 AM( This post was last modified: 04-08-2020, 06:06 AM by GuateGojira )
(04-08-2020, 05:49 AM)OncaAtrox Wrote: Thanks for the clarification regarding the geography of Mesoamerica, I'm actually originally from South America myself so we tend to confuse all the regional names at times. I was treating the jaguars from Central America, and southern North America as one group under the 'Mesoamerican' category.
Don't worry my friend, that is why we are here, to learn more every day.
Based in these figures, I think that we can separate three main groups, that are not subspecies of course:
1 - Northern group: USA and northern Mexico.
2 - Central group: Southern Mexico and Central America (Guatemala to Panama).
3 - Southern group: All South America, with many single populations.
This is just an easy separation for comparison porpuses, but South America had several diferent populations, like that of the Llanos in Venezuela, those from Peru and Bolivia, the giants of el Pantanal in Brazil, the one of the Amazonas and the almoust unknown at the north of Argentina, among many others.
It is incredible that jaguars do not have subspecies and only several populations with clinal diferences.