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Jaguar in the Rainforest.
by Joanne Ryder.

Like a guided fantasy, the narrative invites readers to imagine becoming a magnificent jaguar living and hunting deep within the rain forest. Lush forest-green paintings depict the natural splendor found under the towering canopy -- home to birds, spider monkeys, and butterflies. The transformation to jaguar and back again is somewhat awkward, but the prose is evocative. An author's note is included. -- Copyright © 1996 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved..

Jaguars (Animals of the Rain Forest).
by Alan Caillou.

In the chase between the hunter and the hunted, Bichu, her natural power and beauty ripped away by a hunter's bullet, is struggling home. She has to evade not only the dangers of the jungle, but also the cunning of a proud and stubborn Indian who is determined to catch and kill her. The chase, seen through the eyes of man and beast, climaxes at Bichu's mountain lair. But as the moment of truth draws near, both hunter and hunted have an extraordinary and totally unexpected respect for each other. Bichu the Jaguar conveys the harsh truth of animal existence more convincingly than many other nature books.

Watch for the Jaguar.
by Virgil Oglesby.

A heart-stopping, sweat-inducing, pulse-pounding thriller-with a dash of love to spice up the proceedings.

Spirits of the Jaguar : The Natural History and Ancient Civilizations of the Caribbean and Central America.
by Paul Reddish.

BBC producer Reddish proposes that through the shifting of continental plates, the land moved to where the plants and animals already existed. This companion volume to the PBS series charts the history of these regions from their drifting land masses to the arrival and evolution of exotic inhabitants, including humans. Human impact has been both a blessing and a curse: the greatest civilizations of the New World, the Maya and the Aztecs, were shaped by the regions' animals (jaguars and quetzals) and volcanoes, while Europeans brought advanced technology and new domesticated plants and animals as well as disease, slavery, and death.

Enhanced by beautiful color photographs, this book covers the same material as Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (LJ 2/15/97) and David Rains Wallace's The Monkey's Bridge (LJ 8/97), yet it is ultimately more informative for the general reader. Gloria Maxwell, Kansas City P.L., Kan. Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Borderland Jaguars (Tigres de la Frontera)
By David Brown y Carlos A. López González.

Brown, a wildlife biologist who has worked in the Southwest for 40 years and is currently affiliated with Arizona State U., and Gonzalez, a biologist with the Denver Zoological Foundation, document human contact with jaguars at the US-Mexico border and present jaguar folklore from both countries. They give information on jaguar distribution, habitats, and hunting and breeding characteristics, and describe the status and management of borderland jaguars. They conclude with a proposed conservation plan. B&w and color photos of jaguars are included.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR

Jaguar : One Man's Struggle to Establish the World's First Jaguar Preserve
By Alan Rabinowitz

In the early 1980s, working at the behest of the noted biologist George Schaller, Alan Rabinowitz traveled to the newly independent Central American nation of Belize to study jaguars, once extensive throughout the Americas, in a remote, densely forested part of that country. ("If the world had any ends, [Belize] would surely be one of them" Aldous Huxley once wrote.) There, deep within mountainous jungle, Rabinowitz conducted a thorough study of the jaguar's natural history, studying its diet (made up, he writes, of a surprising quantity of armadillos), movements, and territories, and learning the ways of the much-feared cat. He also learned a little something about himself--discovering, he writes, that "once I had overcome my initial fears of this dense, dark green world, I started to enjoy it."

Over his two-year stay, Rabinowitz developed plans to establish a forest sanctuary that would be free of the jaguar's principal enemies--not deadly fer-de-lance snakes or other large predators, but loggers, poachers, and cattle ranchers, all of whom had their reasons for wanting to see jaguars disappear from the region. Although he was successful in convincing the Belizean government to authorize the Cockscomb preserve, Rabinowitz writes in the afterword to this revised edition of Jaguar (first published in 1986), the jaguar haven came at a cost to Mayan people who lived in the area and were forced to relocate. His memoir will be of great interest not only to admirers of the jaguar, a magnificent animal by any measure, but also to students of international ecological issues. --Gregory McNamee.

Jaguars (The Untamed World)
By Melanie Watt,

Using full-color photographs and drawings, these four eye-catching volumes present information on their subjects' features, social structure, child rearing practices, habitats, and food, as well as on conservation efforts. Attractively designed, accessibly organized, and well written, these books are a cut above the standard (and ubiquitous) animal profile series. Bib., glos., ind. -- Copyright © 1998 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

Jaguar
by Roland Smith.

Adventure, "lost" lands, contemporary issues, multigenerational families, endangered animals and intrigue-JAGUAR has them all! Jake Lansa tells of his visit to his father's biology project site in Brazil-and how it turns into a quest to establish a wildlife preserve. As the Lansa project moves from staging area to the deepest reaches of the rain forest, Johnny Heller conveys both the intensity of a teenager thrilled with the unexpected responsibility of flying the project's ultralight and the frustration of a boy whose father devotes more attention to his work than his son. Each of the extensive cast of supporting characters is differentiated clearly. Heller presents them all as individuals passionately dedicated to the jaguar project. A.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Jaguars (Animals of the Rain Forest).
by Pat Lalley.

A very good book for children.

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