Pantanal Giants: teacher key

Jaguars, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. Follow the jaguar through size, deep time and the laws that protect it. See the numbers scientists keep and how they count and film jaguars.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Where do the largest jaguars live?
   • Honduras
   • The Brazilian Pantanal (answer)
   • Arizona
2. In what year did CITES put jaguars on Appendix I?
   • 1986
   • 1997
   • 1973 (answer)
3. The IUCN category was Vulnerable in 1982 and Near Threatened in a 2016 assessment. What does this show?
   • The category changed over time (answer)
   • The jaguar was never reviewed
   • The category never changed
4. What does scat mean in this book?
   • A jaguar's roar
   • A jaguar's den
   • Animal droppings (answer)
5. How did conservationists film El Jefe?
   • They used dogs to find scat, then set cameras there (answer)
   • They followed him by boat
   • They flew over in planes

Words

• Pleistocene: long-ago age
• mitochondrial: inherited from mothers
• scat: animal droppings
• assessment: careful review
• Panthera: wild cat group
• lineage: family line