PANTHERS
By: Aryanna Taylor

TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION

• KINGDOM: Animalia
• PHYLUM:Chordata
• CLASS: Mammalia
• ORDER: Carnivora
• FAMILY: Felidae

SCIENTIFIC NAME

COMMON NAME

• Jaguar
• Panther
• Tigre Americano

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

• South America
• United States 
• REGIONALLY EXTINCT:
• El Salvador
• Uruguay

StATUS ON RED LIST

POPULATION

• About 15,000

ECOSYSTEM

• Love the water
• Rain Forest
• Swamps & Grasslands 
• Thorn scrub woodlands
• Dry Deciduous Forests

ROLE WITHIN ECOSYSTEM

• Top of the food chain
• Maintain their ecosystem by;
• Keep the numbers of its prey--deer, wild hogs, and raccoon--in balance.
• Reduces disease, and lowers the chance of passing on genetic defects

VALUE FOR HUMANS

• Use their pelts for clothing
• Their hunting of certain animals helps prevent diseases
• Keep animal populations of their ecosystem under control

THREATS

• Hunted for their pelts (Over harvesting)
• Deforestation (Habitat Fragmentation)
• Often shot for feeding on cattle
• Pollution

PROTECTION

• Hunting is PROHIBITED in many Southern American countries;
• Colombia
• Argentina
• Brazil
• Many hunting RESTRICTIONS have been put in place