Daisy Hernandez offers 7 Amazing Facts About Jaguars, One of the World’s Coolest Cats (‘The big cats are among the fiercest apex predators in the world’). If one is to be a predator, it’s best to be an apex predator:
According to Live Science, jaguars are “the biggest cats in the Americas” and weigh up to 250 pounds. Adults can range between 4 to 8 feet long from head to tail with males typically weighing more and having longer bodies than females.