Assertion: jaguar | /r/CapableOf | play important role
Facets:
value: in stabilizing ecosystems
type: LOCATION
value: in maintaining ecological stability
type: PURPOSE
value: in aztec mythology
type: LOCATION
value: in astrology
type: LOCATION
value: in many nations
type: LOCATION
value: in many human cultures
type: LOCATION
value: vitally
type: MANNER
value: as apex predators
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As apex predators, jaguars play a vitally important role in the ecosystem.
text: It is also an apex predator (predators that, as adults, are not normally preyed upon in the wild in significant parts of their range by creatures not of their own species) and a keystone predator, playing an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating the populations of prey species.
text: Jaguars have played an important role in many human cultures and many nations used a symbol of a jaguar as a sign of power and authority.
text: In Aztec mythology and astrology, the jaguar also played an important role, as it was believed that those born under the calendrical sign ocelotl shared the jaguar’s aggressive nature and would become brave warriors.
text: It is a keystone species, playing an important role in stabilizing ecosystemsand regulating the populations of the animals it hunts.
text: Because of its role as an apex predator (at the top of its food chain), the jaguar has no natural predators in the wild, though it plays an important role in controlling the population levels of other, smaller species.
text: It is also an apex and keystone predator, playing an important role in stabilizing ecosystems and regulating the populations of prey species.
text: The jaguar, an apex predator, plays an important role in maintaining ecological stability.