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How Would the Jaguar do?
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How Would the Jaguar fare in the Triassic?
Topic Started: Dec 28 2016, 11:40 AM (2,096 Views)
Kiryu2012
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How fair do you think the jaguar(modern, European, or Pleistocene North America) would fare during the Triassic period? This can be about the Early Triassic and/or the Late Triassic.
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Grazier
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I feel like these topics should start like the "vs" topics where you do the write up for the jaguar and for its adversary, the Triassic.

I'm a bit rusty on the Triassic, but it's a cool topic, guess I'll have to go Wikipedia it.
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AiM4
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They'll do okay i guess. The problem here is that they don't have enough stamina to constantly avoid bigger and deadlier preadotrs in that time period.
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Mammuthus
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Good, but they'll have to compete with large predators (like Prestosuchus).
Edited by Mammuthus, Dec 28 2016, 07:58 PM.
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Grazier
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After boning up on the triassic a bit, I think the jaguar would do very very well indeed. In fact a lot better than any other big cat thanks to it's resourceful versatility when it comes to preying on unusual and varied prey species. It's almost like the triassic would be the jaguar's fantasy period with all it's exotic and delicious archosaurs and juicy amphibians. Besides the odd crocodilian, I don't see any real threat to the jaguar, and even those are potential prey for the jaguar too.
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Finderskeepers
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It would literally be faster than anything on the planet at the time. The only problem I can see is that it's supposed to be way hotter than modern times. Are you sure it can handle the heat?
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Grazier
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Surely if you alter its altitude and latitude you can find a climate to mimic the steamy jungles of south America?
It might have been a time travelling jaguar that caused the Permian-Triassic extinction.
Edited by Grazier, Dec 29 2016, 09:51 AM.
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