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Panthera onca augusta is an extinct subspecies of the jaguar that was endemic to North America during the Last Glacial Maximum of the Pleistocene epoch. [ 1 ] History and distribution
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera that is native to the Americas.With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb), it is the biggest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world.
This category lists some of the species that have become extinct due to human activity, whether intentionally or unintentionally. If a more specific reason is known, the species should also be assigned to a subcategory of Category:Species by threat. They may also need to be placed in Category:Extinctions since 1500.
South America suffered among the worst losses of the continents, with around 83% of its megafauna going extinct. [10] These extinctions postdate the arrival of modern humans in South America around 15,000 years ago. Both human and climatic factors have been attributed as factors in the extinctions by various authors. [78]
A de-extinction company is currently in the works to “bring back” traits of extinct animals. ... Hawaiian honeycreepers are in danger of becoming extinct due to the introduction of avian ...
The male jaguar, named Sombra — shadow in Spanish — has been seen in southern Arizona several times since first captured on a wildlife camera in the Dos Cabezas Mountains in 2016, including a ...
Loss of biodiversity also means that humans are losing animals that could have served as biological-control agents and plants that could potentially provide higher-yielding crop varieties, pharmaceutical drugs to cure existing or future diseases (such as cancer), and new resistant crop-varieties for agricultural species susceptible to pesticide ...
FILE - This image taken from video provided by Fort Huachuca shows a wild jaguar on Dec. 1, 2016, in southern Arizona. An environmental group on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, petitioned the U.S. Fish and ...