Jaguar pouncing on a tapir
Date published 1920
Source Encyclopedia Americana, 1920, Vol. 15, facing p. 596.
Author Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865–1926)  
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Americana_1920_Jaguar_-_South_American_Jaguar_and_Tapir.jpg

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat which is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina.