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                 **  __The Spectacular World of Jaguars__ ** **  By Keating Babcock and Will Marx **     __TABLE OF CONTENTS __  1. A JAGUARS BODY page 2-3  2. FOOD, FOOD, FOOD! page 4-5  3. A JAGUARS HABITAT page 5-6  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">4. THE DANGERS OF A JAGUAR page 6-7 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">5. WRAP UP page 10 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">6. GLOSSARY page 11 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">7. ABOUT THE AUTHORS page 12

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Introduction <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Have you ever seen a jaguar? I know I have never seen one. Did you know a jaguar is related to lions, tigers and other big cats? Okay let’s learn about jaguars. I know you are going to love learning about jaguars. Let’s learn! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 17.3pt center 3.25in; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">A Jaguar’s Body <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jaguars are very muscular and colorful animals. Their teeth and claws are razor sharp. Their legs are strong and fast. Jaguars have amazing bodies that you might want to learn about. Let’s learn about a jaguar’s body. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="height: 179.7pt; mso-left-percent: -10001; mso-position-horizontal-relative: char; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: line; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-top-percent: -10001; mso-wrap-style: square; rotation: 710539fd; visibility: visible; width: 217.3pt;">  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jaguars are really big animals; in fact there are only two types of big cats that are bigger than jaguars, which are lions and tigers. Jaguars are about four to six feet tall. That’s about as tall as a horse. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Did you know that male jaguars are larger than female jaguars? Female jaguars weigh up to two hundred pounds. Have you ever lifted something that weighs two hundred pounds, I haven’t. If you think that’s heavy, listen to this. Male jaguars can weigh up to two hundred fifty pounds. Now that’s heavy. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Have you ever seen a sharp kitchen knife? That’s about as sharp as a jaguar’s claws. When a jaguar is not using its claws the jaguar can ** retract  **them. Jaguar’s legs are small but strong, kind of like my brother. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> A jaguar can roar really loudly. If you heard a jaguar roar it would be louder than a little girl screaming at the top of her lungs. That’s really loud. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jaguar teeth are so strong and sharp sometimes a jaguar will bite through its preys scull. A jaguar’s mouth is rectangular. A jaguar’s whole mouth is almost like a rectangular prism. <span style="height: 27.05pt; left: 0px; margin-left: 392.6pt; margin-top: 21.4pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; text-align: left; visibility: visible; width: 48.6pt; z-index: 2;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Sometimes jaguars pounce to catch their prey. I don’t pounce on my food. Did you know jaguars a have light orange coat with black spots? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jaguars have white stomachs with black spots. Jaguars have really light-orange eyes. Now you’ve learned all about a jaguars body let’s start learning about what a jaguar eats. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">Food, Food, Food! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> I’m about to tell you all the animals jaguars eat and how they do it! First of all jaguars eat any size animal from fish to ** capybara  **. You’re probably wondering what a ** capybara  ** is. A ** capybara  ** is the largest rodent on the planet!! Jaguars also eat deer! Isn’t that crazy! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jaguars are experts at hunting. Jaguars feel the same way kids feel about vegetables. Jaguars hate vegetables! Jaguars are ** carnivores. **Jaguars only eat meat. They like hunting for meat only when the sun is coming up and when the sun is going down. Jaguars usually eat animals that are found in the ground dead but sometimes a jaguar kills its living enemy by chomping off its head! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> This part is really cool; one single jaguar is able to carry a dead animal for a couple of hours. It could also go the distance around your school even if the dead animal weighed about six jaguars! Roar! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> A jaguar just crept up on you. Did you hear the jaguar? I bet you didn’t! Jaguars can creep up on prey without even making a peep just like I creep up on my brother. Tigers can’t do that. Have you ever gone to a rain forest and gone to a lake? You betcha I haven’t! If you go, watch out, a jaguar might pop out of a bush and attack you! Jaguars like to hide near water to attack their prey but jaguars eat animals on land too. They eat animals on land and in the water. This part I think is really interesting. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jaguars can run 75 mph. to catch prey if needed but they can only run a short distance. Jaguars sometimes wait to see an animal pass and when the animal is near the jaguar will pounce on it! The last thing about a jaguar is that it can pick up movement of its prey before the jaguar can see it. The prey is usually only about 100 feet away. Isn’t that a lot of information of food for a jaguar for now? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">A Jaguars Habitat <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you want to learn about a jaguar’s habitat? Well since you’re in the chapter habitat, I bet you do! Do you like to sleep where it’s dark and wet? I don’t think you do. Jaguars like habitats that are dark and wet. Jaguars usually live near rivers or swamps because they like being near water. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Most big cats like jaguars love being in water. It is one of jaguars’ favorite things to do and jaguars usually go in lakes or swamps to cool off and sometimes in streams. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jaguars also can adapt to ** grasslands  **, rain forests, deserts, and swamps. Sometimes during the day jaguars will lay in branches of trees or grassy beds. Sometimes you can see a jaguar just hanging out in a tree. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you know what is really cool? Jaguars are the best at climbing trees out of all the big cats. You can find jaguars living in rivers or swamps but there aren’t that many in mountains and deserts. You can find jaguars in Central and South America. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Big jaguars can be found in ** South America’s Amazon Basin  **. Jaguars that live in rain forests and in Central America are the smallest. Many years ago large numbers of jaguars could be found between Arizona and Texas in the north and all the way to Argentina in the south but jaguars aren’t nearly as widespread today. That’s a lot isn’t that? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">The Dangers of a Jaguar **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> In this chapter I am going to tell you why jaguars are almost ** extinct  **. First you should know jaguars are an ** endangered  ** ** species **. You might be wandering what an endangered species is. Well it is an animal that has been exposed to danger. So now you know what an endangered species is. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Did you know that there are only about fifteen thousand jaguars left in the world? What if there were only fifteen thousand people left in the world. At one point people were killing jaguars so often that people were killing about eighteen thousand jaguars a year. That’s a lot. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Some farmers killed jaguars to keep them from harming or killing their farm animals. In some places today killing jaguars is ** illegal  **. People purposely killing jaguar is only part of the reason jaguars are ending. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Jungles and forests are cut down and many jaguars’ homes are ruined. Jaguars are not found in places they used to be found like Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> A long time ago people killed jaguars for their beautiful skins and fur. No wild animals hunt jaguars. Until people stop hunting jaguars they will be endangered. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">WRAP UP __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Now you know a lot about jaguars! I bet you now have a lot of background knowledge. You know about where jaguars live, what they eat, what jaguars fear, and what their bodies are like. I think jaguars are really cool. What about you? Bye! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 150%;">GLOSSARY __ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">CARNIVORS **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= ANIMALS THAT ONLY EAT MEAT. ** ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">GRASSLANDS __ **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= A HUGE FIELD WITH VERY, VERY TALL GRASS. ** ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">CABYBARA __ **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= A HUGE ANIMAL. IT IS THE LARGEST RODENT ON THE PLANET. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">SOUTH AMERICA’S AMAZON BASIN __ **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= A HUGE LONG RIVER IN SOUTH AMERICA. IT MIGHT BE THE LARGEST RIVER ON THE PLANET. ** ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">RETRACT __ **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= MEENS TO PULL BACK. ** ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">EXTINCT __ **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= NO MORE OF AN ANIMAL  ** ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">ENDANGERED SPECIES __ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= ** JAGUARS ARE EXPOSED TO DANGER. **  ** __<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">ILLEGAL __ **** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">= AGAINST THE LAW  ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">About Author Will <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m eight years old. I love cats. But I have a dog named Miake. I also like sports the ones I like the most are basketball, baseball, and football. Keating, the other author is one of my best friends. I have one brother named Austin. My favorite foods are cheeseburgers, pizza, chips, tater tots, and Caesar salad. I am in third grade. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">About Author Keating <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">I am nine years old. My favorite sports are gymnastics, and diving. I have a sister named Kenagh and a brother named Finnegan. I also like basketball. I have a dog named Rupert. My favorite desserts are cake, pudding, cookies, and ice cream. I am in third grade too. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">