After the announcement of Maya's passing earlier this week, the zoo is taking the time to celebrate her legacy.

The first, Stone Hand Jaguar, spent decades making courtesy calls throughout the Maya lowlands. The reconstructed burial of a Snake king, thought to be Claw of Fire, who died in 697, includes jade ...

Maya the jaguar, who resided at the Hattiesburg Zoo since 2016, passed away at 21 years old. The jaguar was diagnosed with kidney disease in January and exhibited other age-related health issues.

It is probably no coincidence that the 14th king of Tikal, Chak Tok Ich’aak I, long known as Jaguar Paw, died the same day. The impact that other civilizations have had on the Maya is just ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Friends of the Hattiesburg Zoo are grieving after officials announced the death of its Jaguar, Maya. The announcement was posted to the Zoo’s Facebook page on Wednesday ...

The relief also hints at Maya cosmology ... 54) in which warriors are presenting captives to a king named Yahaw Chan Muwan. Wearing a jaguar-skin vest and an enormous headdress of green quetzal ...

Maya society was very complex ... there used to be a large carving of king Jasaw Chan K'awiil sitting on a Jaguar throne. Image caption, This is a commemorative slab which was placed here in ...

Maya, a black jaguar that has called the Hattiesburg Zoo home since 2016, has died, zoo officials announced Wednesday morning. The 21-year-old jaguar developed kidney disease, diagnosed in January ...