Giant Jaguars of the Ice Age - the Jaguars of the North American Pleistocene

[@Rodrigo_Vega]

Jaguars do live in Argentina still today : P Although it's true their range is limited to the hotter North.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

I hope that bone clones make a skull replica of the giant jaguar

[@rnedlo9909]

Thank you, I didn't know jaguars lived that far north.

[@robertmartinjr.4537]

They dd in the pleistocene epoch.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

Caiman are actually more related to alligators then crocodiles

[@fishermanj3984]

Member of the family

[@VeganSanatani]

Cats are just amazing hunters, in the sundarbans Tigers also take done small to medium size salt water crocs, And it's not super uncommon as well, locals speak of it all the time

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Jaguars & Tigers are perhaps the most efficient predators the planet has ever produce, & I'm going way Back in comparison, the Dino's, etc., were bad news but most of them were so specialized in their Niches (a burden in mass extinctions), if they got out of it slightly they had survival issues.

[@joshdewitt8796]

Was Augusta that big? I thought more recent estimates have it relatively close to pantanal and llanos Jaguars. Also good to note that modern smaller jaguars are a result of a recolonization of North America from South American stock. Jaguars seen in in. Roth America today, as well as in colonial times, are the result of jaguars migrating back into north America after the ice age.

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

That's when the Earth was huge and Smilodon and Lions and Giant Jaguars had all the food they needed. It's a wonder how the American lions that roamed in prides didn't drive out just about all other top predators.

[@manuelpena3988]

Hi, I'm not trying to be mean (indeed I love your videos) but to understand you better. In your "Intro to the Ice Age" video ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXPChJWDoLt-arM ) you said something on the lines of: " ... the animals haven't changed since then (the Ice Age), so, an animal from today, like a giraffe? there were giraffes back then..." but now, in this video you say: "... now jaguars are a very interesting species, because they are species that we still have in the planet today, but they are very much an Ice Age animal..." So I'm a little bit puzzled. What do you mean with that, in which sense is more an "Ice Age" species a jaguar than... for example, a gray wolf, or a red deer? Thank you!

[@benwoodrufffalconry]

This is true. Literally every animal alive today is an ice age animal, meaning every living animal was around d during the ice age. So while it is true to say a Jaguar is an “ice age animal”, technically every living animal is also. I don’t script the videos and just talk directly. I think I am in the habit of talking to people casually about the ice age rather than giving a longer presentation. So it is in my nature to tell someone something like “this animal literally is a survivor of the Ice Age quote as a way to help it stick in their mind. And while it is true,again, the fact is every living animal is an Ice Age animal. I apologize for the inconsistency in the way, I presented it in the two videos.

[@manuelpena3988]

@benwoodrufffalconry dont need to apologize, I just wss curious. Maybe there wss a deeper meaning I was not understanding. Thank you very much!

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

Well species alive today were already present before the ice age. However species do change over time, wolves developped a much more robust build during glaciation to hunt larger prey. It's slight changes and adaptation to a specific habitat, not enough to be a subspecies. What we call Ecomorph. Well jaguar have retained their bulkier morphology from the ice age, specialised for large game. And they've kept it today even if there no large prey around. A case of evolution anachronism.

[@fishermanj3984]

Some species evolved at the beginning of the Holocene such as modern bison and coyotes

[@jameswells554]

There were Jaguars in Oregon and Northern California until the mid to late 1800's. That's kinda scary considering they will hunt from trees; kinda glad they're gone to be honest.

[@robertmartinjr.4537]

The last jaguar in California was killed in Palm Springs in the late 1800s. 1880's I think I can't remember the exact year.

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

Booh. They're native species ans their loss is a tragic story. They're not a threat to human and there's barely no case of jaguar attacking human unprovoked.

[@paulofearghail9408]

We are still in the "ice age" that began roughly 2.5 million years ago. What people keep calling (erroneously) the "last ice age" was just the most recent glacial period, which ended around 11,000 years ago. We are in one of many warm interglacial periods (and not even the warmest), which will likely continue for another 40,000 years or so until the cycle switches back to another glacial period. As long as the continents are in their current positions, Earth will likely continue to be in this ice age, cycling back and forth between cold glacial periods and warmer interglacials.

[@indyreno2933]

In case everyone should know, the jaguar (Jaguarius onca) has only four valid subspecies: the north american jaguar (Jaguarius onca augustus), the central american jaguar (Jaguarius onca centralis), the amazon jaguar (Jaguarius onca onca), and the andean jaguar (Jaguarius onca peruvianus) The north american jaguar (Jaguarius onca augustus) may be extinct in the majority of North America, but it still exists today only in northern Mexico and possibly Arizona The extinct patagonian jaguar is actually a fossil population of the andean jaguar (Jaguarius onca peruvianus), thus making mesembrinus a junior synonym of peruvianus

[@shafqatishan437]

Stop lying everywhere

[@indyreno2933]

@@shafqatishan437, not a lie.

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

​@@indyreno2933 It is You're unnable to get a single informations right. Even the scientific name, origin and classification is all wrong

[@Kevin_40]

there used to be giant humans too

[@Tuyen-ew5wt]

Real

[@scottthesmartape9151]

Nah

[@scottthesmartape9151]

Technically yes but sorta nah

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

Nope stop your bs The tallest human in fossils record are barely a few inches taller than average.

[@Tuyen-ew5wt]

@@deinsilverdrac8695 its satire stupid