Jaguar
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ISBN: 0439394708 / Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, August 2002
Intending to protect his cattle, a Venezuelan cowboy tracks and tries to kill a menacing jaguar, yet something else gets in his way of the hunt.
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Fiction and fact blend in this powerful book about a controntation between a hunter anda jaguar. From the noted author of TIGRESS and ANTARCTICA.One evening on the Venezuelan plains a rider on his way home sees a lone Jaguar at the edge of a lagoon. Afraid for his cattle herd, the rider decides to find the Jaguar. But how could he possibly harm this magnificent animal?Readers follow man and Jaguar in their envionment, where they are introduced to other native animals like piranhas, anacondas, a c aiman, a howler monkey, and chachalacs.
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