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Jaguar, Jaguar Sport and Le Mans
2001The association of Jaguar with motorsport success goes back to the company’s roots in Blackpool, in the era of the Swallow Sidecar, and, continues today in the considerably more expensive and sophisticated World of Formula 1 Grand Prix. Not only dramatically more expensive but with the ‘small’ advantage that at least some of the expense is offset by ...
Martin Beck-Burridge, Jeremy Walton
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Depredation by Jaguars on Caimans and Importance of Reptiles in the Diet of Jaguar
Journal of Herpetology, 2010The jaguar (Panthera onca) is the largest Neotropical felid and in many parts of its range reptiles form a significant but relatively minor component of its diet. However, in the seasonally flooded varzea forests of the Amazon, terrestrial mammals, which form an important component of jaguar diet in other habitats, are largely absent and jaguars switch
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Were-jaguars and jaguar babies in Olmec religion
2010The problem of Olmec iconography has troubled scholars for years. The “Jaguar Baby” motif is inseparable in its motivation from all other known Olmec objects but has never been subject to scholarly consensus. The wide use of motif demands that we investigate the significance of the jaguar to the Olmec.
Dafni Kalatzi Pantera, Frederick Slater
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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2017
Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. “Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 51–70.
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Comment on Turner, Terence. 2017. “Beauty and the beast: The fearful symmetry of the jaguar and other natural beings in Kayapo ritual and myth.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (2): 51–70.
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2017
This chapter employs the verse analysis method developed by Dell Hymes to analyze an Amazonian Quichua myth-narrative, “The Twins and the Jaguars,” from the province of Napo. The narrative's theme, “becoming a jaguar,” is expressed through a rhetorical logic of onset, ongoing, and outcome that unfolds as a structural transformation relation between ...
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This chapter employs the verse analysis method developed by Dell Hymes to analyze an Amazonian Quichua myth-narrative, “The Twins and the Jaguars,” from the province of Napo. The narrative's theme, “becoming a jaguar,” is expressed through a rhetorical logic of onset, ongoing, and outcome that unfolds as a structural transformation relation between ...
Michael A. Uzendoski +1 more
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2014
A t first look, the third-largest cat in the world after the tiger and the lion seems to closely resemble the spotted leopard, which follows it in the big cat hierarchy. But with its massive head, stocky build, and relatively short tail, the jaguar is strikingly different and much more imposing than the leopard—structurally more akin to the tiger.
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A t first look, the third-largest cat in the world after the tiger and the lion seems to closely resemble the spotted leopard, which follows it in the big cat hierarchy. But with its massive head, stocky build, and relatively short tail, the jaguar is strikingly different and much more imposing than the leopard—structurally more akin to the tiger.
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