jaguar (Panthera onca) Artist Antoine-Louis Barye (1795–1875)  
Title Jaguar Discovering a Snake 
Date between 1838 and 1842
Medium watercolor and gouache on cream-colored wove paper
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jaguar_Discovering_a_Snake_(Jaguar_d%C3%A9couvrant_un_serpent)_-_Antoine-Louis_Barye.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.