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Each year across the nation, countless numbers of exotic animals are purchased as pets. Sugar gliders, hedgehogs and prairie dogs are just a few of the exotic species recently gaining popularity inpet stores. Others, such as non-human primates, tigers and even bears are readily obtainable from private breeders and dealers who advertise to buyers via magazines and over the Internet. Wherever theycome from, the global commercialization of exotic animals is a multi-billion dollar industry that often results in animal cruelty, health risks and serious population declines.
Most exotic pets endup in the hands of private individuals, where they suffer from inappropriate housing and care and poor nutrition. Some are captured from their native lands. Others bred in private kennels. Even moreare surplus from roadside menageries, zoos and circuses.
If we have some of these animals as pets we can have the risk of:
* Change the balance on its native lands.
* In some case theseanimals attack the owner or children.

Jaguar

The largest cat in America: the Jaguar


Jaguar
(Panthera onca) | The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third in the world (after thelion and tiger), is also the only representative of the genus Panthera found on this continent and lives from places almost deserted as the Desert of Arizona or Mexican highlands to tropical forestslike the Amazon. |
In Mexico this species is distributed from the tropical forests of southeastern Mexico to the Rio Grande in the Gulf and in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Pacific coast to theborder with Belize and Guatemala. Usually, the altitude of these areas is 1000 meters above sea level.
* Áreas donde se localiza el Jaguar en México
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* The weight of an adult jaguar is45 to 130 kg, the length from nose to tip of tail is 1.70 to 2.30 m, and has a lifespan of 20 years. Its coat is yellowish brown with irregularly shaped black spots (called rosettes). However, some...