jaguar

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A notorious exotic animal dealer who sold a jaguar cub in Riverside was sentenced to six months’ probation Monday, federal prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2025

Rico, who lives with Tina, a female two-toed sloth, in the zoo's jaguar house, has been regularly monitored since the surgery.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

A California man paid $1,000 to rent a jaguar for an hour-long photo shoot.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

The animals, he remarked, “were very tame,” which he attributed to “the jaguar having been banished for some years.”

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

Perhaps the best- known subject is a man or boy gingerly holding a “were-jaguar”: a limp, fat, sexless baby with a flattened nose and a snarling jaguar mouth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann