THE Likh OF MAMAM ILS 
The jaguar hunts the largest game of his country, kepirs, 
deer, capybaras, and the manatee and cayman of the great 
water courses. Wherever domestic animals are reared it) be- 
comes a destructive pest. For the most part, however, these 
cats subsist on capybaras and other rodents; and in the North 
are special enemics of the pecearies, striking down) stragglers 
and then hastening up a tree out of the way of the furious herd 
of sharp-toothed pigs brought together by the squealing of the 
first victim. When these have grown tired of besieging the 
lazy brute overhead, and have gone off, it descends and makes 
itsmeal. Rarcly found away from water, which seems as neces- 
sary to it as to the tiger, and thronging along the great rivers, 
it is not surprising to find that in such places as the reedy borders 
of the La Plata fish form its main diet, snatched from the water 
by the paw. On the Amazon it feeds largely on turtles, which 
it turns on their backs and scoops out of their shells with a 
neatness which astonished Humboldt; then it digs up and feasts 
upon the eggs. It attacks the manatee in its own clement, 
and has been seen “dragging out of the water this bulky ani 
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mal, weighing as much as an ox.” Even the crocodile and 
cayman are regularly preyed upon. Pts fondness for mon- 
keys is also well known, and it is hated and reviled by the 
monkeys with the same fury as leads the Hast Indian apes to 
chase and hurl sticksand bad language at thetiger. Ifthe Brazil 
ians may be believed, the jaguar takes advantage of this by 
tactics which so excite and infuriate the monkeys that they 
lose all sense of prudence, and then fall victims to panic; 
for this, probably, is all there is to the story of ' fascination” 
by cat or snake. 
Ordinarily jaguars are hunted with a pack of dogs which 
follow the (rail and drive the animal into a tree, where it. is 
Hunting likely to make a better fight than does the puma. 
Jaguars. Their silence in a battle, or when wounded, has 
often been remarked, although they are ordinarily rather 
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