Jaguar Predation

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I have seen some people seriously underestimate the sheer strength of jaguars. Only lions and tigers can beat them in the cat family

Naturalist and president, Theodore Roosevelt gave an account where a jaguar killed a horse and dragged it for a 1609 metres.

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"It is a thirty brute, and if it kills far from water will often drag its victim a long distance toward a pond or stream ; Colonel Randon had once come across a horse which a jaguar had thus killed and dragged for a mile."

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https://archive.org/details/throughbrazilia00roos/page/82/mode/2up

World Renowned biologist and founder of Panthera, Dr Alan Rabinowitz says that a single jaguar can kill anything from an iguana to a 900 kg bull

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Jaguars can kill anything from an iguana to a 900 kg bull

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https://books.google.it/books?id=OhU-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA106&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here is a photo of a jaguar confronting a bull head-on

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