Discover the Jaguar

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which environment provides the right combination of shelter and feeding space for a Jaguar?

woodland edges, scrub, gardens, and building surfaces rain forest, wetlands, dry forest, and river margins cool moist forests of southeastern Australia tropical forest edges, grassland, farms, gardens, and towns

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which menu would require the fewest changes from the normal diet of a wild Jaguar?

aquatic insects when young and fish and crustaceans at sea small flying insects as adults and aquatic prey as nymphs deer, peccaries, capybaras, reptiles, fish, and other prey mostly medium-sized birds captured in flight

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which timing clue belongs in a field guide entry for a Jaguar?

travels day and night, resting on the ocean active mainly at night often feeds when currents concentrate plankton often active from dusk through night but also hunts by day

Question 4 · multiple choice

Choose the most accurate description of a Jaguar in motion.

stalks, swims strongly, climbs, and attacks with a short rush uses dynamic soaring to cross huge distances with little flapping climbs walls and ceilings with adhesive toe pads flies through water with broad triangular fins

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which claim about a Jaguar's adaptation is scientifically accurate?

salt glands near the eyes remove excess salt from seawater exceptionally strong jaws can pierce tough shells and skull bones fires a focused jet of water to knock insects from leaves a flexible body and feeding tentacles process large amounts of sediment

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which breeding-season clue correctly points to a Jaguar?

a pair raises chicks in a large flat nest in a tree females attach eggs beneath submerged rocks cubs are born in a secluded den and learn to hunt from their mother eggs are carried and cleaned by a parent until hatching

Question 7 · multiple choice

How does a Jaguar usually balance solitary and group life?

mostly works alone or in temporary pairs around dung pairs defend feeding territories during breeding mostly territorial, though groups gather where food is abundant mostly solitary, marking large overlapping territories

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which statement best explains the place of a Jaguar in a food web?

regulates many prey species as a top predator moves ocean nutrients into rivers and feeds many predators controls mosquitoes and other insects in both water and air regulates populations of flying birds in natural and urban habitats

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which survival response is correctly matched to a Jaguar?

jumps away, hides, displays bright mouthparts, or bites if trapped uses camouflage, strength, water escape, and warning growls runs into dense cover and freezes quietly inflates its body and releases toxin when seized

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A jaguar uses its very long tail as both a balance pole and a wraparound blanket.

True False