jaguar

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There’s no fishing, but wildlife sightings are common, including a very large cat — a black jaguar? — at water’s edge in early October.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024

In one movement, she becomes the enchanted voice of a jaguar; in another she channels the song of the toh.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2024

The animals, he remarked, “were very tame,” which he attributed to “the jaguar having been banished for some years.”

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024

The radio alerted Ian that a jaguar had been spotted prowling a tributary of the São Lourenço river.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2024

He sold everything, even the tame jaguar that teased passersby from the courtyard of his house, and he bought an eternal ticket on a train that never stopped traveling.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez