jaguar

For decades these animals – lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs and jaguars – have been a sign of power, status and even political fealty in the country.

She sold the weeks-old jaguar cub, which she called Amador, to a Murrieta man who then sold him again before the cub was dumped at a San Diego wild animal sanctuary.

A man and woman were charged in 2022 after purchasing a jaguar cub and transporting it from Texas to California for commercial activity.

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

Nearby wetlands include a protected habitat for jaguars.