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Happy birthday to Jaguardo, Super Rugby's best mascot

Agustin Creevy and Jaguardo

On behalf of everyone at Rugby Pass: Feliz cumpleaños, Jaguardo!

Mascots from around the Super Rugby universe are coming together on social media to wish Jaguares mascot Jaguardo a happy birthday.

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In a post to his Twitter account earlier this week, Jaguardo revealed that it was his birthday on Sabado, or Saturday.

Queensland Reds mascot Rusty the Koala was the first to wish him a happy birthday.

Wolvy, the Sunwolves new mascot introduced earlier this year, sent his birthday wishes in both Japanese and Spanish.

Cheetah, the Cheetahs mascot, printed out a sign especially.

Lions mascot Mufasa recorded a video message for Jaguardo, which was translated into English by a real life Doctor Dolittle: “Good day Jaguardo. Mufasa, the king of Emirates Airline Park, says happy birthday, and wishes you well for the next year.”

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Waratahs mascot Tah Man sent greetings from Sydney.

The Kings, who don’t have a mascot, got Lionel Cronje to record a birthday message instead.

Finally, better late than never, Hurricanes mascot Captain Hurricane sent Jaguardo belated birthday wished on Monday morning.

Here is a photo of the birthday boy last year, riding a zipline above Estadio José Amalfitani holding lit smoke bombs in his paws.

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