The jaguar has loose belly skin which allows the animal to be kicked by its prey with little chance of injury. The largest known population exists in the Amazon rain forests. Black jaguars live in South America. Jaguars are also found in Africa and Asia. Until the 1900s, they also roamed the Yukon, southern United States to Uruguay, and Iceland.
Jaguars prefer wet lowland habitats, swampy savannas or tropical rain forests.
Their favorite habitat is in the tropical and subtropical forests. Jaguars like their homes to have very soft ground. They use materials such as leaves, rotten trees and other soft materials that they may find in the woods or in the rain forest. Jaguars would prefer to live alone, and don't like other animals to come near their den, as it is a territorial area for the jaguar. The jaguar is the fiercest of the cat family.