How is the Jaguar animal helpful to the environment?

My daughter is doing a animal project in school about the jaguar. One of the questions is how the jaguar is helpful to the environment. I can not find the answer anywhere.|||1- the jaguar eats small mammals and rodents, and helps the ecosystem go on without an inflation of those small animals. For example, let's say it eats rabbits. If he didn't eat the rabbits, the rabbits would breed, and then those rabbits would have eaten all the grass, and the other animals who ate grass wouldn't have anything to eat and they would all die.





2- When the jaguar dies, it's body is really useful for the environment, because of the proteins, water, minerals etc. would return to the environment. Not the energy though, there isn't an energy cycle...|||Its favorite food is the capybara, a very large rodent. As capybara can weigh up to 100 pounds it is helpful to the environment in providing a natural balance in the food chain of the animal world.Hope this helps.|||Go to the echologists and find out