“If you had to choose, you'd want to be bitten by a jaguar, not a lion or a tiger. But pound for pound, jaguars pack a stronger punch,” says Adam. “The strength of the jaguar's bite is due to the arrangement of its jaw muscles, which, relative to weight, are slightly stronger than those of other cats.
Jaguars have the strongest jaw muscles of all of the big cats. Their bite force is around 1,500 pounds per square inch, which is about double that of a tiger!
A jaguar would win a fight against a mountain lion.
Jaguars are larger and more powerful on average, have a speed advantage, know how to attack from cover, and have a far more powerful bite.
A grizzly bear would win a fight against a jaguar.
The jaguar lacks the methods of attack to bring down a grizzly bear.
A fully grown crocodile would win a fight against a jaguar every time. The reason is simple: jaguars couldn't muster enough power to land a fatal attack on a grown crocodile without putting themselves at tremendous risk. Jaguars prefer to hunt their prey and land a quick, fatal attack on the throat.
The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat relative to its size. Research by Adam Hartstone-Rose and colleagues at the University of South Carolina, who compared the bite forces of nine different cat species, reveals that a jaguar's bite force is only three-quarters as strong as a tiger's bite force.
Jaguar and lion hybrids
A jaglion or jaguon is the offspring between a male jaguar and a female lion (lioness). A mounted specimen is on display at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Hertfordshire, England. It has the lion's background color, brown, jaguar-like rosettes and the powerful build of the jaguar.
Traditionally the lion has been crowned King of the Jungle, but when one observes a lion and elephant encounter in the African wild it is clear to see that King lion has a healthy respect for elephant.
Jaguar. Jaguar (Panthera onca) are the largest cat in the Americas and have a powerful bite to match. For their size, they are the strongest of any cat, allowing them to dispatch monstrous prey - even caiman crocodiles. On the coast of Costa Rica, they leave the jungle to hunt turtles on a tropical beach.
Nope, changes are close to zero in my opinion. Even if you were to take a 100 pound small population female jaguar against a strong, trained man weighing well over 200 pounds, there is no easy way to disable or kill an extremely well muscled cat.
Although jaguars and lions are both felines, lions are larger, stronger, and more sociable animals compared to jaguars. A lion can weigh up to 500lbs and grow up to 8ft long, but jaguars only weigh a maximum of 300lbs and grow a little over 5ft long.
Hippos are highly aggressive, unpredictable and often charge other animals or even humans. A hippo would win a fight against a polar bear. The hippo is larger, stronger, has better offensive powers and a defense that would allow it to last longer in a battle than a polar bear.
Jaguar. Not only is it bigger, faster, more agile, and able to use its forelegs, but it also can do a better job of what the hyena is best at, biting. A jaguars bite force is higher than a hyenas, so high that they can kill their prey by crushing the skull.
Leopard vs Jaguar: Who Would Win in a Fight? Jaguars are larger, faster, and deadlier overall than a leopard. A jaguar would beat a leopard in a fight. Both creatures could wait in ambush for one another, and that could spell a quick end to any conflict between them.
The tiger wins this animal battle!
However, the small anatomy of the cheetah quickly becomes a disadvantage when battling a tiger face-to-face. Tigers are bigger, stronger, and made to wrestle. Once these two big cats started to brawl, the tiger would quickly come out on top.
A tiger would kill a gorilla in a fight. If a tiger managed to ambush a gorilla, the tiger would immediately kill it. Although the gorilla is strong, the fact is that it could not stop 600 pounds of charging muscle and teeth.
"Evidence that jaguars are dominant over pumas is strongest in areas where jaguars are large and weigh considerably more than pumas, but more ambiguous in Northern Mexico, where the two species are similar in size," Elbroch explains.