Editing Jaguar (section)

===Attacks on humans===
{{Further|Man-eating animal#Jaguars}}
The Spanish [[conquistador]]s feared the jaguar. According to [[Charles Darwin]], the [[indigenous peoples of South America]] stated that people did not need to fear the jaguar as long as capybaras were abundant.<ref name=Porter1894>{{cite book |author=Porter, J. H. |year=1894 |chapter=The Jaguar |title=Wild beasts; a study of the characters and habits of the elephant, lion, leopard, panther, jaguar, tiger, puma, wolf, and grizzly bear |publisher=C. Scribner's sons |location=New York |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsstud00port#page/n197/mode/2up |pages=174–195}}</ref>
The first official record of a jaguar killing a human in Brazil dates to June 2008.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=De Paula, R. |author2=Campos Neto, M. F. |author3=Morato, R. G. |year=2008 |name-list-style=amp |title=First official record of Human killed by Jaguar in Brazil |journal=Cat News |issue=49 |pages=31–32}}</ref>
Two children were attacked by jaguars in Guyana.<ref name=r22>{{cite journal |author1=Iserson, K. V. |author2=Francis, A. M. |year=2015 |name-list-style=amp |title=Jaguar attack on a child: Case report and literature review |journal=Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=303–309 |doi=10.5811/westjem.2015.1.24043 |pmc=4380383 |pmid=25834674}}</ref>
The majority of known attacks on people happened when it had been cornered or wounded.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Seidensticker |first1=J. |last2=Lumpkin |first2=S. |date=2016 |name-list-style=amp |title=Cats in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=09LwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT303 |isbn=978-158834546-2}}</ref>