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Tapir and Friends Wildlife World
The Official Web Site of The Tapir Preservation Fund ~ Online with Tapir Conservation Since 1996

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P.O. Box 118, Astoria, Oregon 97103, USA ~ Office phone / fax (503) 325-3179 ~ Cell phone (503) 338-8646

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	See more jaguars and aluminum jewelry Black Jaguar Jewelry Aluminum Pins, Pendants and Earrings F013 CB - Black Jaguar Earrings ~ US $25.00 F014 CB - Black Jaguar Pin ~ US $20.00 F015 CB - Black Jaguar Pendant ~ US $20.00

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Any item can be ordered in a variety of colors. These wonderful jaguars are made by Corinna Bechko, who is not only an artist, but has worked at the Los Angeles Zoo in the research division. She attended the Jewelry Arts Academy in Manhattan. What a lucky day it was for us when she discovered our web site and suggested we might want to see the jewelry she makes!

Customers have a wide variety of choices. Pendants and earrings come with a bead. Corinna will try to find any color you want, so bead choices are almost endless. The jaguar itself comes in a variety of colors as listed in the drop-down menu above. You will find examples of the earrings, pins and pendants and some color combinations, as well as the other animal types we sell, on our page of Aluminum Jewelry.

They are sturdy and light weight, and measure about 1.75 inches from nose to tail. The pendants hang on a 17-inch black silk cord (included). You color choice can be made up quickly - probably in only a few days. Come see our wonderful assortment of jaguar toys and gifts.

Jaguars (Panthera onca) are the third largest cat in the world, ranking behind the tiger and African lion. In spite of their large size and powerful build, jaguars are shy and seldom attack man unless they feel threatened. Jaguars inhabit the Amazon basin rainforest, where deforestation rates are high. This isolation leads to fragmentation of jaguar populations, making them more vulnerable to the predations of man. People compete with jaguars for prey, and jaguars are frequently shot on sight despite protective legislation. Although commercial hunting and trapping of jaguars for their pelts has declined drastically since the mid-1970s when anti-fur campaigns gathered steam, the most urgent conservation issue is the current intolerance of ranchers for jaguars. The black jaguar is a melanistic (black) color variation of the spotted jaguar. (Jaguar research by Joslyn Biggins.)