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The animal on the cover of Cisco Cookbook is a black jaguar (Panthera onca), sometimes called a black panther. While the color of black (melanastic) jaguars differs from that of the more common golden-yellow variety, they are of the same species. Jaguars of all types are native to the tropics, swamps, and grasslands of Central and South America (and rumored to still exist in parts of the southwestern U.S.), but the black jaguar is usually found only in dense forests. They are between 4 and 6 feet long and have a long tail that is usually about 30 inches long. Males can weigh up to 250 pounds, while females are considerably smaller and rarely grow to more than 150 pounds. Even though black jaguars often appear to be a solid black in artistic renditions and photography, their coats still have the dark rings containing even darker spots that are a distinguishing feature of all jaguars. Also notable are their eyes, which are a shiny reflective yellow.

Jaguars will eat almost any animal, including sloths, pigs, deer, monkeys, and cattle. Their hooked claws allow them to catch fish, frogs, turtles, and even small alligators. Even though they sit at the top of the rain forest food chain, humans are a large threat to jaguars of all colors-it's estimated that only 15,000 jaguars are left in the wild and the species is listed as near threatened. They are hunted for their coats (the black coat is greatly prized) and deforestation threatens their survival.

The black jaguar plays a large role in many South American religions, and is often considered a wise and divine animal who is associated with the worlds of magic and spirit. The Aztecs believed that the jaguar was the earthbound representative of their deity, and both the Mayans and Toltecs believed that their Sun God became a black jaguar at night in order to pass unseen through the underworld.

Philip Dangler was the production editor and copyeditor for Cisco Cookbook. Sarah Sherman, Derek Di Matteo, Jane Ellin, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Julie Hawks wrote the index. Jamie Peppard and Mary Agner provided production assistance.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Philip Dangler.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff Liggett.

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