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A jaguar, which was brought to Armenia from Georgia in 2013, died at Yerevan Zoo on Monday morning, its head Arevik Mkrtchyan said.

"The jaguar was found dead in the morning,” Mkrtchyan wrote on Facebook.

The animal only had shortness of breath in the past days and refused to eat on Sunday evening, she said. The jaguar was given antibiotics treatment, due to which it became active and started to eat, but then suddenly died next morning.

According to her, specialists of Armenia's Food Safety Inspectorate Body, the chief pathologist of the laboratory and the best professors of the Agrarian University were invited to the zoo to find out the cause of the 10-year-old animal’s sudden death.

The zoo director says the preliminary cause of death could be bronchopneumonia, adding the jaguar's lungs, bronchi, liver and spleen were affected.

The laboratory tests and autopsy results will come back in 3-4 days.

The jaguar had been in the quarantine area of the zoo for the past few years.