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==Description Descrizione ==

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|image1=Description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères récents et fossiles (Panthera onca skull).jpg |caption1=Skull of a jaguar

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|image2=Cheetah, leopard & jaguar (en).jpg |caption2=Illustration of [[cheetah]], leopard and jaguar

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|image3=Black Jaguar (Panthera onca).JPG |caption3=A black jaguar. Such [[melanistic]] jaguars as well as leopards are commonly called [[black panther]]s}}

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|image1 immagine1 = Description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères récents et fossiles (Panthera onca skull).jpg |caption1=Skull of a jaguar

| didascalia1 = Il cranio di un giaguaro

| immagine2 = Cheetah, leopard & jaguar (ita).jpg

| didascalia2 = Confronto tra [[Acinonyx jubatus|ghepardo]], leopardo e giaguaro.

| immagine3 = Black Jaguar (Panthera_onca).JPG

| didascalia3 = Un giaguaro nero. Questi esemplari [[Melanismo|melanici]], come quelli di leopardo, sono noti come [[Pantera nera|pantere nere]].

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The jaguar is a compact and well-muscled animal. It is the largest cat native to the Americas and the third largest in the world, exceeded in size only by the tiger and the lion.<ref name=Seymour /><ref name="sizes">{{cite journal |last1=Hayward |first1=M. W. |last2=Kamler |first2=J. F. |last3=Montgomery |first3=R. A. |last4=Newlove |first4=A. |year=2016 |name-list-style=amp |title=Prey Preferences of the Jaguar ''Panthera onca'' Reflect the Post-Pleistocene Demise of Large Prey |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=3 |page=148 |doi=10.3389/fevo.2015.00148 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="sizes22">{{cite journal |last1=Hope |first1=M. K. |last2=Deem |first2=S. L. |year=2006 |name-list-style=amp |title=Retrospective Study of Morbidity and Mortality of Captive Jaguars (''Panthera onca'') in North America: 1982–2002 |journal=Zoo Biology |volume=25 |issue=6 |pages=501–512 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/11687/Zoo%20Biology%2C%20Vol.%2025%2C%20Issue%206%20Retrospective%20Study%20of%20Morbidity%20and%20Mortality%20of%20Captive%20Jaguars....pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |doi=10.1002/zoo.20112 |access-date=12 September 2018 |archive-date=9 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909000241/https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/11687/Zoo%20Biology%2C%20Vol.%2025%2C%20Issue%206%20Retrospective%20Study%20of%20Morbidity%20and%20Mortality%20of%20Captive%20Jaguars....pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=live }}</ref> It stands {{cvt|68|to|75|cm|1}} tall at the shoulders.<ref>{{cite magazine |author1=Rich, M.S. |year=1976 |title=The jaguar |magazine=Zoonoz |volume=49 |issue=9 |pages=14–17}}</ref>

Its size and weight vary considerably: weights are normally in the range of {{cvt|56|-|96|kg}}. Exceptionally big males have been recorded to weigh as much as {{cvt|158|kg}}.<ref name=r10 /><ref name="Animal">{{cite book |author1=Burnie, D. |author2=Wilson, D.E. |year=2001 |name-list-style=amp |title=Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife |___location=New York City |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |isbn=978-0-7894-7764-4}}</ref>