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Southern Arizona Is

Jaguars, like all wild cats, are hyper-carnivores. They consume a wide variety of prey. In Arizona they eat from a large menu that could include deer, javelina, coati, skunks, raccoons, frogs, birds and other animals.

WHAT DO JAGUARS IN ARIZONA EAT?Whatever they want.

Pr o t e c t O u r J a g u a r s . o r g

JAGUAR HABITAT VICTORY IN THE U.S. SOUTHWEST

In 2014 the Center for Biological Diversity won 764,207 acres of protected critical habitat for jaguars in southern Arizona and New Mexico.

Confirmed jaguar sightings (1996 to 2017*)

Critical habitat boundaries

Tumacacori

Tiger up to 8.5 ft. long

up to

4 ft

. tal

l

Lion up to 8 ft. long

up to

4 ft

. ta

ll

Jaguar up to 6 ft. long

up to

2.5

ft.

tall

HOW BIG ARE JAGUARS?

The jaguar is the 3rd largest cat in the world after lions and tigers.

weight up to 300 lbs.

weight up to 500 lbs.

weight up to 650 lbs.

JAGUAR COUNTRY

Huachuca Mountains, 2017Peloncillo Mountains, 1996

Near Ruby, Ariz., 2009

Dos Cabezas Mountains, 2016Whetstone Mountains, 2011

Huachuca Mountains, 2016

Jaguars have been spotted in 9 different mountain ranges in southern Arizona

since 1996 and 3 individual jaguars have been photographed there since 2015.*

JAGUARS NEAR TUCSON?

Downtown Tucson

S

anta Rita Mountains

29 miles away

46 miles

Tu

mac

acori Mountains

60 mile

s

46 miles

H

ua

chuca Mountains

56 miles

Dos

C

abezas Mountains

79 miles

112 miles

P

elon

cillo Mountains

38 mile

s

Whe

tstone Mountains

Babo

quivari Mountains

Paja

rito Mountains

*as of October 2017C

hiric

ahua Mountains

Santa Rita Mountains, 2015 Chiricahua Mountains, 2017

95 miles