Jaguar – PANTHERA ONCA Endangered Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia) Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria) Order: Meat-eating Mammals (Carnivora) Family: Felidae. The Name “Jaguar”: “Jaguar”
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Fascination Animals of Brazil's Amazon rainforest
Jaguar – PANTHERA ONCA Endangered Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia) Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria) Order: Meat-eating Mammals (Carnivora) Family: Felidae. The Name “Jaguar”: “Jaguar”
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