Marauder

Description

Jaguar are designed to kill. It is, in fact, their primary function. They do not co-habitate, nurture or cooperate for survival in the manner of other big cats. The jaguar’s powerful bite 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 or grabs the hapless victim by the atlas bone, the topmost vertebra and the axis (the vertebra below it) separating the joint connecting the skull and spine.

In our early days at Banana Bank, we would find a dead cow from our herd with four holes in its neck. Usually there was a trail of mashed vegetation where the cow had been dragged from the point of kill to the point of consumption. Thus is the behavior of a marauder.