Carnivores of the Amazon
Photography © Mason Fischer, All Rights Reserved Courtesy International Expeditions, Inc.
| Name: | Jaguar |
| Description: | The jaguar is tan with black spots and rings and can also be black. The jaguar is a lenth of 4 feet long and 2.5 to 3 feet in height. Females weigh100 to 200 pounds and males weigh 125 to 250 pounds. A jaguar cub weighs 25 to 32 pounds at birth. The jaguars live up to 22 years. |
| Habitat: | Central South America. SW USA. They also live in dense tropical forest, swamps and open country. Understory layer of rainforests. |
| Diet: | The jaguar eats grown animals such as peccaries, capybara, sloth, tapir, deer, and monkeys. They also eat cattle, fish, frogs, tutles, and small rodents. They will eat almost anything. |
| Name: | Rainbow Boa |
| Description: | They can change color that is why they are called the Rainbow Boa. The Rainbow Boa ranges from 3.5 to 7 feet long and weighs 10 pounds. They kill there pray by wrapping around it and squeezing it. |
| Habitat: | The Boa lives in trpical rainforest. Costa Rica and South America. |
| Diet: | They eat rats, bats, and small mammals. |
Above photo courtesy Don and Robbie Hamper
Photo © Tom Brakefield/CORBIS, Courtesy Ron Kalasinskas
| Name: | Bush Dog |
| Description: | The Bush Dog grows to about 1 foot at the shoulder. They weigh about 10 to 15 pounds. They travel in small packs. The Bush Dog can swim and dive underwater. |
| Habitat: | The Bush Dog lives in the Amazon Rainforest. Also other rainforest and other parts of Central and South America. |
| Diet: | They eat manly rodents (agoutis and capybaras). |