Wellcome to the second episode of Animal Battle!
This episode’s candidates for the title “The Best Mammal in the World” are another
two big cats which look pretty similar, but have different amazing abilities.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present you these two ferocious felids:
The Jaguar VS
The Leopard . Also stick until the end of the video to find
out who is the winner of the last battle beetwen the lion and the tiger.
Let’s do it!
I’m Mario and this is Animal Battle!
The winner of the Animal Battle isn’t necessarily the strongest, because we are going to evaluate
all of them based on 6 different characteristics: Agility, Attack, Defense, Intelligence, Bonus
skill and Survival.
So let’s start.
Before we find out which of our two competitors is better we need to be able to differentiate
them.
There are two main differences beetwen jaguars and leopards.
First of all looking at their coats we can observe that both of them have spots and rosettes
but the jaguar can have one or several dots inside the rosettes.
Unfortunately during your trip to Uganda you might not be able to see if the large felid
in front of you has dots inside it’s rossets.
So how do you tell if it’s a leopard or a jaguar.
Well it’s a Leopard because leopards live in the savanahs and jungles from Africa and
eastern and southern Asia, while Jaguars can only be found in Central and South American
jungles.
Also while both of them are classified in the genus Panthera, leopards are more closely
related to lions then to jaguars.
Now that we can differentiate them let’s take a look at their stats.
Let’s talk about Agility.
The Leopard can reach speeds of up to 58 km/h which is not bad, while the Jaguar can run
with the speed of... whell I don’t really know that.
I couldn’t find anything about the jaguar’s speed on internet so I decided to search in...
books, but it seems like those were written before the aparition of the first mammals.
We can aproximate the Jaguar’s speed to that of the Leopard or maybe less, but this
doesn’t really matter because both the Jaguar and the Leopard are stalkers rather then chasers
like lions and cheetahs.
Also Leopards are the strongest climbers of all the big cats.
They are designed for that having long and strong back legs for big jups while the shorter
forlimbs have shoulder blades positioned to the sides to provide space for better climbing.
Jaguars can also climb trees, although not as good.
But what gives them a lot of points is the fact that they are exeptional swimmers feeling
as good in water as on the ground, while leopards preffer to avoid swimming.
So Leopards have pretty high Agility stats, but Jaguars are the winners at this category
because they dominate arboreal, terrestrial and aquatic zones.
Looking at their intelligence stats we can observe that they are prety high.
This is due to the fact that Leopards and Jaguars are predators and hunting needs a
higher level of intelligence.
Some might argue that one is more intelligent because it has a bigger brain but it is not
necessarily true.
Whales have bigger brains then humans but are not so intelligent so we can say that
the intelligence level of jaguars and leopards are prety much the same.
So let’s move on to attack and defence stats.
Here is where things become more interesting.
Leopards have a head and body length of 90-190 cm and a long 60 to 100 cm tail.
Male leopards can weight between 37 and 90 kg.
Jaguars have a head and body lenght of 112-185 cm and a short 45 to 75 cm tail.
Alghtough they are not as long as leopards they are heavier weighting 56 to 96 kg.
This means that Jaguars are tehnicaly larger and sturdier then leopards and can be a little
bit more powerfull.
Both of them have very interesting hunting tehniques.
As I mentioned earlier they are both stalk and ambush predators.
Leopards can attack the prey jumping from a tree from above.
That must have hurt.
They can also get very close to the prey through tall grass being camoumflaged and being able
to move without making a sound.
For this they use their thick pads under their paws which act like silencers.
They can hunt during the night because they have very good night vision and can take advantage
of the fact that monkeys can’t see in the dark.
They bite the prey’s throat to sufocate it.
Leopards can hunt over 100 different species from ungulates to mokeys.
And if you think that the leopard’s attacks are cool wait until you see the Jaguar in
action.
Jaguars can kill any vertebrate in Central and South America, having a preference for
large prey.
They can hunt deers, tapirs,peccaries, dogs, capybaras, adult caimans and sometimes even
anaconda.
Using their remarcable vision, jaguars can even see a target obscured by camoumflage
or hiding in water.
And after the jaguar spots the prey it jumps.
They can also swim and sneak behind a caiman and then attacks it.
The caiman has no chance of survival because the Jaguar has a different killing tehnique.
Instead of biting the neck it bites directly through the skull to deliever a fatal bite
to the brain.
The Jaguar can do this because it has the strongest bite from all the large cats.[But
can you do this?]
Well I think it can’t, but the Jaguar is definetely a great hunter.
But we should not forget about competition.
While Leopards can defeat a cheetah they are no match for tigers, lions, bears, crocodiles
and groups of hyenas.
Fortunately they can avoid their food being stolen dragging it into a tree.
Jaguars -? Well, they don’t have competition being the largest cats in the New World.
Overall they have great attack stats , the jaguar being slightly better due to its powerfull
bite and is winning at defence due to the lack of competition.
Let’s move on to bonus skills.
As I said earlier the Leopard has acute sense of hearing and night vision, but the same
aplies to jaguars, plus the fact that they can spot the target which is camoumflaged
or in water.
Also both of them have their spoted coats which are used for camoumflage.
Even though yellow and black coloured coats don’t seem to be good in green jungles,
they can actualy reflect the sunlight making Jaguars and Leopards hard to spot.
Now comes the cool part.
Some Jaguars and Leopards can be born melanistic which makes them be entirely black, becoming
black panthers.
This means that black panthers don’t exist as a different species and neither do pink
ones.
Melanism in Jaguars is actualy quite frequent, 6% of them being black panthers.
Due to natural selection melanistic Leopards don’t survive in savanahs, but in some jungles
where it is dark they can be very abundant.
When I first heared of this I realized that my whole life was a lie.
At least I don’t struggle with survival which is what we are going to talk about next.
Leopards are listed as a vulnerable species, losing 75% of their hisitorical range due
to severe hunting.
The same happened to Jaguars which have lost about 37% of their historical range and are
listed as a near threatened species.
Seing that Jaguars and Leopards are such amazing animals I can’t imagine why would people
want to kill them just for their coats.
So share this video with your friends, family, babushka to see how magnificient these felids
are and don’t forget to write in the comments down bellow or vote on twiter who do you think
is the winner and I will anounce it in the next episode of Animal Battle.
The link is in the description.
Now I will anounce the winner of the battle between the Lion and the Tiger.
It was a very tough decision.
Both Lion and Tiger fans had strong arguments but just one of them can compete further for
the title “The Best Mammal in the World”.
So, after counting all the votes, the winner is … the Tiger – an incredible animal
with very high Agility, Attack and Defense stats.
It was very close and I know that there are many lion fans which are going to be upset,
but even though the Tiger is the one going further, Lions are still impressive animals
and we should understand that all animals are amazing.
So once again don’t forget to vote for this episode’s winner.
Respect Animals.