Though I stood for hours at the club tape, my hair standing up on end and my eyeballs starting from their sockets, Jaguars still came through steadily at 1-1/16.
Were they left behind to become a prey to the jaguars and the large blood-sucking bats, that kill so many animals in these parts?
The branch was already creaking, when, to his horror, the foremost of the jaguars appeared in sight on the opposite side!
Guapo was resolved that the bats should not have him, nor the jaguars neither.
Don Pablo had not seen the jaguars when he spoke, but his words were prophetic, and that prophecy was speedily verified.
When the first one fell the jaguarswere not twenty paces behind him.
The introduction of the large mammalia into America has provided them with increased resources; and in many places, where there are herds of half-wild cattle, the number of the jaguars is said to be greater than formerly.
Don Pablo and Doña Isidora, who saw all this from the other side, were in hopes that having recovered their young, the jaguars might give over their chase, and carry them off.
About three leagues from Guamanga is the town of Anco; the territory around which is infested with jaguars and reptiles.
The jaguars grow to a great size, even as large as an ass, and their skin, like that of the African tiger, is beautifully variegated with white, yellow and black.
The alligator, far from being a silent animal, as is generally supposed, makes a hideous noise at times, bellowing with so singular a cadence and loud a din, that he can even outroar the jaguars and mycetes.
Bates and Wallace also mention having seen, on several occasions, jaguars perfectly tame, roaming in and out of the huts, as their smaller feline relatives would have done.
This peculiarity may be occasionally seen well exhibited in the jaguars and other great cats at the Zoological Gardens, more especially when they are young and sportive.
Black leopards and jaguars are occasionally, but rarely, to be met with; and this natural melanizm has been attributed to a larger proportion of iron in the blood.
But the jaguars had scented it at the same time, and in spite of my thorough acquaintance with this forest, it was impossible for me to run as fast as they did.
According to the sign he had found, the jaguars were four in number--the male, female, and two cubs.
And yet I was a tigrero for more than forty years, and the jaguars were not nearly so polite in my time as they are now.
He has for some days been watching a band of jaguars that have bitten several horses at the hacienda.
Of course you are going to hunt your strange jaguars again?
Garcia was active as one of the jaguars of the forest hard by; but I was young, and my muscles were pretty tough.
The jaguars were timid in the extreme; and though they would have fought perhaps if driven to bay, their one idea seemed to be to seek safety in flight.
Jaguars with scarred backs are frequently killed, and others, not long escaped from their tormentors, have been found so greatly lacerated that they were easily overcome by the hunters.
One gaucho had so repeatedly distinguished himself by his boldness and dexterity in killing jaguars that he was by general consent made the leader of every tiger-hunt.
At the time of my visit there jaguars and pumas were very abundant and extremely destructive to the cattle and horses.
Then the trail struck off straight across the marshes, for jaguars swim and wade as freely as marsh-deer.
The dead carcasses of others showed that on their wanderings they had encountered jaguars or human foes.
There was one black jaguar-skin; melanism is much more common among jaguars than pumas, although once Miller saw a black puma that had been killed by Indians.
On these marshes the jaguars also followed the peccary herds; it is said that they always strike the hindmost of a band of the fierce little wild pigs.
In this particular neighborhood the ordinary jaguars molested the cattle and horses hardly at all except now and then to kill calves.
Jaguars also stalk and kill the deer; in this neighborhood they seemed to be less habitual deer-hunters than the cougars; whether this is generally the case I cannot say.
They also told us that the cougars had the same habits as the jaguars except that they did not prey on such big animals.
As for the giant tamandua, in spite of its fighting prowess I am wholly unable to understand how such a slow and clumsy beast has been able through the ages to exist and thrive surrounded by jaguars and pumas.
The jaguars occasionally killed horses and full-grown cows, but not bulls.
An hour or two afterward we unexpectedly struck the fresh tracks of two jaguars and at once loosed the dogs, who tore off yelling, on the line of the scent.
In some other neighborhoods, not far distant, our hosts informed us that the jaguarslived almost exclusively on horses and cattle.
The roaring of the jaguars was awful, but it was music to the dismal noise of these hideous and malicious reptiles.
During the night the jaguars roared and grumbled in the forest as though the world was going wrong with them, and at intervals we could hear the distant cayman.
When the jaguars approached the skirt of the forest, our dog, which till then had never ceased barking, began to howl and seek for shelter beneath our hammocks.
The jaguarsof Maturin, Cumanacoa, and the isthmus of Panama, are timid in comparison of those of the Upper Orinoco.
Two thousand skins of jaguars were formerly exported annually from Buenos Ayres alone.
Many tortoises lay only sixty or seventy eggs; and a great number of these animals are devoured by jaguars at the moment they emerge from the water.
The cries of the jaguarswere heard during the whole night.
The jaguars of the banks of the Atabapo and the Temi are large and well fed; they are said, however, to be less daring than the jaguars of the Orinoco.
More than four thousand jaguars are killed annually in the Spanish colonies, several of them equalling the mean size of the royal tiger of Asia.
The jaguars are fond of retiring to deserted ruins, and I believe it is more prudent in general for a solitary traveller to encamp in the open air, between two fires, than to seek shelter in uninhabited huts.
In the eyes of the Indian of the Guaisia, the Cheruvichahena was a being entirely different from himself; and one whom he thought it was no more unjust to kill than the jaguars of the forest.
At the sight of the jaguars they stopped, not through alarm, for they quietly placed the butts of their rifles on the ground, but in order to give the hunter every facility to emerge victoriously from his rash combat.
The palefaces came in the night, like jaguars without courage.
The jaguars seemed to comprehend that the moment for action had arrived.
The spectators frenziedly applauded this magnificent opening scene: the jaguars had scented blood, and were mad.
The jaguars watched him, licking their lips, and passing their paws behind their ears with those graceful movements peculiar to the feline race.
Jaguars never attack a man unless forced by necessity; and the latter tried, before all, to seize the horse.
The hunter and the Mexican were seated by the fire, while Curumilla, armed with his scalping knife, was busy flaying the two jaguars so skillfully killed by Don Miguel, and which were magnificent brutes.
At this moment the jaguars raised their heads, while laying back their ears and snuffing anxiously.
The only traces left of the tempest of the preceding night were two magnificentjaguars stretched dead before the gate of the hacienda, not far from the carcass of a half-devoured horse.
Our neighbours thejaguars and the Apaches have not done us any great damage this season.
When we find a jaguar or a grizzly bear upon our path, we kill them; these men are more cruel than jaguars or grizzlies, they owe a reckoning for the blood they have shed, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
But the thick foliage still concealing the jaguars from the eye of Costal, rendered the gesture of the student as unintelligible as his cry.
If you meet the jaguars don't trouble yourself about them.
Instead of paying proper attention to what his companion was saying, his eyes wandered abroad, searching the horizon on every side of him, as if at every moment he expected to see the jaguars returning to attack them.
Then you really think the jaguars may be waiting below?
The jaguars had fled, it was true, but in what direction?
Don Cornelio again turned his eyes towards the fierce jaguars crouching among the branches of the trees.
But the jaguars can swim like seals, I have heard?
Once more a series of prolonged vociferations came echoing through the forest, which certainly had but little resemblance to the voices either of jaguars or any other known animals.
Who knows but that the jaguars may be up there, ready to spring down upon us?
At this moment one of thejaguars uttered a growl that caused the blood to run cold through the veins of Clara.
If we descend below the cascade, we shall be almost certain of seeing the jaguars there.
Get your arms ready," rejoined Don Mariano, "it must be thejaguars that are howling near us.
Though you may dive like the sharks to the bottom of the ocean, or like the jaguars hide yourself in the thickest jungles of the forest, you shall not escape, any more than shark or jaguar, from my carbine or my knife.
If the jaguarsonly heard what you've said, they would shake their sides with laughter.
We understood him to say that we might encounterjaguars or huge snakes, and we should be unable to see our way through the dark avenue of trees.
I tell Ellen that her menagerie is a mere bait to jaguars or boas, or other prowling animals of the forest," observed John.
I could not help thinking of fierce jaguars roaming in search of prey, or those dreadful boas, or the anacondas we have heard of.
I doubt whether intentionally he would have crossed from the mainland; for though jaguars can swim, I suppose, like other animals, they do not willingly take to the water.
Now it seemed as if a whole troop of jaguars were growling and snarling over their prey.
Don Pablo and Dona Isidora, who saw all this from the other side, were in hopes that having recovered their young, the jaguars might give over the chase, and carry them off.
The jaguars would cross over it like squirrels, and then-- Guapo reflected no further, but bending over the thick branch, attacked it with his axe.
Contests with Jaguars Nature, ever provident, has scattered with a bounteous hand her gifts in the country of the Orinoco, where the jaguar especially abounds.
But the jaguars have also an aldermanic gout for turtles, which they gratify in a very systematic manner, as related by Humboldt, who was shown large shells of turtles emptied by them.
Sometimes, after a long silence, the cry of the jaguars came from the tops of the trees, when it was followed by an outcry among the monkeys.
When the jaguarsapproached the edge of the forest, which they frequently did, a dog belonging to the party began to howl, and seek refuge under their cots.
The jaguars are their most inveterate enemies, next to man; they pounce upon them, and turn one after the other on their backs, so that they may afterwards devour them at their ease.
On our return to the camp we once more lay down, one of the party as before keeping watch; which was more than ever necessary, as the dead tapirs were very likely to attract either jaguars or pumas.
He was a great sportsman, Gerald told us; and having had several encounters with jaguars and pumas, he would be delighted to recount his adventures.
I would sooner face a couple of jaguars than those little brutes," he observed.
He maintained himself chiefly by keeping a large flock of goats, which lived secure from jaguarsand pumas among the rugged rocks.
These, I suppose, kept the jaguars from actually attacking us; but the next morning we found the traces of several which had come down to the river to drink.
As we had already as much venison as we could carry, we agreed that we should like to go out with the old Indian factor, Quamodo, and hunt jaguars under his guidance, with as many of his people as he could collect.
During the night we heard the roar of jaguars and other wild animals; but as we kept up a blazing fire, we were not molested.
Now, if only no ocelots or jaguars come around we’ll have roast pork for supper to-night,” he remarked as he laid down his burden.
The rarejaguars that become man-eaters, the occasional giant anacondas, the deadly poisonous snakes, and the cashadas, were all the subjects of superstitious tales.
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