Jaguar (Panthera onca subsp. palustris) River bank of an unknown tributary feeding Ro Cuiab, Pantanal, north of Porto Jofre, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Gallery forest (Vreza forest) at about 128 m (420 ft) elevation. This cat was the purpose of this trip though we found a few hours each day to bird. The Jaguar is the 3rd largest cat in the world and this subspecies is the largest of the nine subspecies recognized. Almost twice as large as the most northern subspecies.