"Jaguara" is an Indian word, meaning, he who kills with one leap". Jaguars are the biggest cats in the Americas and they spend about half their time hunting. They are very fast, short-distance runners and are most active during dusk and night.

Jaguars are also excellent swimmers and can even cross rivers that are several kilometers wide. They are very shy and set territories that can reach a size of 40 square kilometers (15,5 square miles).

Jaguars live in the Amazon forest, which is the largest remaining tropical forest in the world - as large as Western Europe or the the USA.

Most of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil, but parts of it are also in regions of Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

Along with Jaguars, the forest is also home to about 60,000 different types of plants, 1,000 types of birds and over 300 types of animals. Over 2,000 different species of fish and animals such as the pink freshwater dolphin and the giant otter swim in its river.

Millions of people also live there - in Brazil alone about 20 million people live in the rainforest.

However, the forest is under threat due to human developments and illegal logging, which could lead to to the damage or loss of up to 42 percent of Brazil's remaining Amazon forest.

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