People remove forest trees to build towns, roads, and farms for food production. This purposeful burning or cutting down of trees is called deforestation.
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What is population fragmentation?
Population fragmentation happens when groups of jaguars are separated from each other and cannot mate.
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Ganesh Marin, a student at the University of Arizona, caught a jaguar on camera in Mexico, just two miles south of Arizona. Marin named this spotted cat:
El Bonito or The Beautiful
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Why do jaguars start to hunt livestock?
A jaguar requires up to 100 square miles of land to hunt, prey, and mate. With less land and fewer prey, they hunt livestock.
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A primary threat to jaguars is...?
The destruction of their habitat.
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What is the "jaguar corridor"?
A passageway for jaguars across 18 Latin American countries.
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Jaguars are called "...." predators.
Apex predators, or the animals at the top of the food chain.
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The other jaguar that traveled from a preserve in Mexico was called:
El Jefe or The Boss
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They are not picky eaters. Their ultrastrong bite that can break through:
Tough crocodile skin, animal bones, and turtle shells.
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What is the relation between jaguars and the growth of plants?
Jaguars eat armadillos, armadillos eat earthworms which are responsible to maintain the soil, allowing plants to grow and flourish.
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How do fires start in Pantanal and why do they spread uncontrollably?
The fires started when farmers burned forest to create space for cattle ranches, but the fires spread uncontrollably due to drought.
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What is a consequence of population fragmentation?
Reproducing babies is far more challenging for jaguars.
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The last jaguar that lived in the United States was killed by hunters in 1993. True of false?