Jaguar
f jaguar 
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|---|---|
| Difficulty | 6 |
| Attacks |
Claw 1d4 physical, Claw 1d4 physical, Bite 1d8 physical |
| Base level | 4 |
| Base experience | 44 |
| Speed | 15 |
| Base AC | 6 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 600 |
| Nutritional value | 300 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A jaguar:
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| Reference | monst.c#line357 |
A jaguar, f, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. It is a type of feline.
A jaguar has two claw attacks and a bite attack.
Generation
Randomly generated jaguars are always created hostile.
Strategy
Though they have the weakest attacks of the big cats in their monster class, jaguars are still fairly fast at 15 speed and can seriously endanger a hero that is lower-leveled and/or has poor AC.
History
The jaguar first appears in Hack 1.21, which is based on Jay Fenlason's Hack. In this game, it uses the J glyph; from Hack for PDP-11 and Hack 1.0 to NetHack 2.3e, it uses the j glyph. NetHack 3.0.0 moves the jaguar to the feline monster class and gives it its current glyph.
Origin
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species of the genus Panthera, and is the only living member native to the Americas. With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb), it is the biggest cat species in the Americas and the third-largest in the world. A jaguar has a distinctively marked coat that features pale yellow to tan colored fur, covered by spots that transition to rosettes on the sides; some jaguars instead have a melanistic black coat.
The jaguar inhabits a variety of forested and open terrains, but its preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, wetlands and wooded regions - its range extends from the Southwestern United States across Mexico and much of Central America, the Amazon rainforest and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. The jaguar has featured prominently in the mythology of indigenous peoples of the Americas, including those of the Aztec and Maya civilizations.
Jaguars are adept at swimmers and largely solitary apex predator that hunt opportunistically, preferring stalk-and-ambush tactics. The jaguar has a powerful bite that allows it to pierce the carapaces of turtles and tortoises, and to employ an unusual killing method: it bites directly through the skull of mammalian prey between the ears to deliver a fatal blow to the brain. As a keystone species, it plays an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and in regulating prey populations—it is also threatened by habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and poaching for trade, and has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2002.
Encyclopedia entry
Large, flesh-eating animal of the cat family, of Central and
South America. This feline predator (_Panthera onca_) is
sometimes incorrectly called a panther.
