jaguarundi

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Here in South Texas we have cougars, bobcats, ocelots and jaguarundi.

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  • Here in South Texas we have cougars, bobcats, ocelots and jaguarundi. —  Cryptomundo
  • The spotted patterns in the forests, and perhaps even in the marshes which the jaguars so frequently traversed, are probably a shade less conspicuous than the monochrome red and gray, but the puma and jaguarundi are just as hard to see, and evidently find it just as easy to catch prey, as the jaguar and ocelot. —  Through the Brazilian Wilderness
  • The Texas jaguarundi is a small endangered wildcat that lives along the border between Texas and Mexico. —  Neatorama
  • The puma, too, assails them, and the _jaguarundi_, and the fierce _coatimundi_; and not unfrequently the enormous _anaconda_ enfolds them in its deadly embrace; for the innocuous creatures can make no defence against their numerous enemies; and but for that fecundity which characterises the family to which they belong -- the so called —  Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
  • In the warehouse were scores of skins of jaguar, puma, ocelot, and jaguarundi, and one skin of the big, small-toothed red wolf. —  Through the Brazilian Wilderness
 

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  1. Spanish and Portuguese, from Guarani jaguarundi, yaguarundi, variant of jaguá, yaguar, dog.
 

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