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The complete book of Jaguar : every model since 1935
In 1935, when a small company in Coventry, England, launched a sporting saloon (i.e., sedan) called the Jaguar SS, it set in motion an inexorable process that would lead to Britain's most beloved line of high-performance automobiles. The Complete Book of Jaguar covers the SS and all of the Jaguar's subsequent production models, from the original SS Jaguar to today's F-Type sports cars, F-Pace SUV, X-Type sedans, as well as concept cars. As with other books in the Complete Book Series, author Nigel Thorley organizes the content chronologically with entries for each year. Narratives for each discuss the cars and technology, while spec tables highlight key technical and performance specifications. Originally begun by a couple of motorcycle enthusiasts--William Lyons and William Walmsley--as a firm called the Swallow Sidecar Company, Jaguar would become one of the world's most celebrated automakers. In England's bleak postwar years, Jaguar became a shining star--first with its XK120, followed by the XK140 and XK150. Sporting sedans like the Mark 2 and Mark X set the bar for luxury four-door transport in the '50s and '60s. Then Jaguar stunned the world with the achingly beautiful E-Type in 1961, a genuine 150 mph super sports car. Along the way, the company competed on road courses around the world, going head to head with greats like Ferrari and Aston Martin. Though Jaguar lost its way periodically in the modern era, it has bounded back stronger than ever in the twenty-first century with a strong lineup, including the new F-Type sports car and F-Pace SUV. The Complete Book of Jaguar is the essential guide to this important chapter in the history of sports and luxury automobiles.
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The jaguar's shadow : searching for a mythic cat / Richard Mahler
When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend - yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to Panama's rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. Mahler's odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search - and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar.
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Jaguars
\"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes the different ways a jaguar finds food in the rain forest\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dietary similarity among jaguars
Prey remains found in carnivore scats provide generalised dietary profiles of sampled populations. The profile may be biased if individual diets differ and some individuals are over- or under-represented in the sample. Quantifying individual contributions allows us to recognise these potential biases and better interpret generalised profiles. Knowing the dietary differences or similarity between individuals can help us to understand selection pressures and identify drivers of distribution and abundance. Using the results of individual faecal genotyping, we re-interpreted our previously-published generalised dietary profile of an elusive, neotropical felid, the jaguar (Panthera onca; Foster et al. (2010)). We quantified individual sample sizes, assessed whether the generalised profile was influenced by the inclusion of scats originating from the same individual and prey carcass (pseudo-replication), and quantified the distribution of prey species among individuals. From an original sample of 322 jaguar scats from a high-density jaguar population in Belize, we identified 206 prey items (individual prey animals) in 176 independent scats representing 32 jaguars (26 males, 3 females, 3 unknown sex). The influence of pseudo-replication in the original dietary profile was minimal. The majority of scats (94%) came from male jaguars. Eight males accounted for two-thirds of the prey items, while 24 jaguars each contributed <5% of the prey items. With few exceptions, the jaguars followed the same broad diet, a 2:1:1 ratio of nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus noveminctus), other vertebrates [less than or equal to]10kg, and ungulates, primarily peccaries (Tayassu pecari and Pecari tajacu). We noted prey switching between wild and domestic ungulates for individuals spanning protected forests and farmland. This first scat-based study exploring individual variation in jaguar diet highlights the importance of armadillos and peccaries for male jaguars in Belize, the need for research on their roles in supporting high-density jaguar populations, and the need for more data on female diet from across the jaguar range.
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Jaguars
\"A kindergarten-level introduction to jaguars, covering their growth process, behaviors, the rainforests they call home, and such defining features as their short legs\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jaguars
\"Presents information about jaguars, their habitats, and their special features, including their swimming skills\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jaguars
This title will introduce your little readers to jaguars, one of the fiercest cats on Earth.
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Long-term spatial dynamics of jaguars in a high-density population
We assessed the socio-spatial dynamics of a jaguar population over 15 years using camera-trap data from Belize. Using ~4,000 independent detections of male jaguars, we documented and quantified range shifts, overlap, and interactions between males. Additionally, ~ 700 independent detections of females allowed us to investigate interactions between the sexes. Using the distance between activity centres, we assessed the variation in space use within and between males. Male ranges were not stable: activity centres shifted from one year to the next, with a mean maximum distance moved of 8 km per individual between any two years (SD = ± 6 km, n = 371). Overall, we found no evidence of exclusive territoriality. Male jaguars overlapped extensively with one another: males shared, on average, half of their detected range with at least one other male, per year (Volume of Intersect, kernel overlap); while their activity centres lay within 2 km of at least one other male. Close encounters (two individuals at the same location within 24h) were most common between males whose activity centres were ≤ 4 km apart. We found that close encounters between prime males (3-7y) and old males (≥ 8y) occurred less frequently than expected, suggesting avoidance of stronger competitors by the physically weaker, older age class. Notably, old males also had fewer close encounters than expected with females; potentially having reduced access to females because they were avoiding areas frequented by prime males. However, we found no clear evidence of males monopolising females, as females tended to associate with more than one male during the short time windows when they were detected on trails. Overall these results are consistent with a system of scramble competition among males in which overlapping and shifting ranges result from searching for receptive females that are distributed sparsely and unevenly in space and time.
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