The last known jaguar.

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Caption: THE LAST KNOWN JAGUAR in the United States, Macho B, died in March. Jaguars once roamed much of the American Southwest, but with the arrival of cattle ranchers in the 19th century, they had been hunted to extinction in the U.S. by the early 1960s. The few that have been spotted since then in Arizona and New Mexico are thought to be from northwest Mexico. The 16-year-old Macho B was accidentally caught in a snare in...