Big Cat Animal Facts

Lions are unique in that they are the only cats to live in groups prides.

Big cat animal facts. An educational and fun talk where you can ask questions and learn all about different animals here at Big Cat Habitat. It is similar in appearance to the Jaguar but slightly smaller with a slenderer body. The Leopard is a species of big cat found in sub-Saharan Africa Asia and parts of Russia.

Explorers-at-Large Dereck and Beverly Joubert and the National Geographic Society founded the Big Cats Initiative in 2009 as an effort to halt the decline of big cats in the wild. The Lion Panthera leo is a mammal of the family Felidae and is one of four big cats in the genus Panthera. While once found throughout much of Africa Asia and Europe lions are presently encountered in the wild only in Africa and in the Gir Forest of India.

However only the first 4 of these species are able to roar. At one time it ranged from the Yukon in Canada to the Strait of Magellan at the tip of South America. Despite enormous differences in size various cat species are quite similar in both structure and.

Research by Adam Hartstone-Rose and colleagues at the University of South Carolina who compared the bite forces of nine different cat species reveals that a jaguars bite force is only three-quarters as strong as a tigers bite force. The five big cat species have all been assessed and categorised by the IUCN Red List. The smallest of the descendants is the rusty-spotted cat found in Sri Lanka.

The leopard is the smallest of the four Big Cats but is probably the most powerful pound-for-pound. At an average of 54kg the cheetah is the smallest of the big cats and is classified in a separate genus Acinonyx compared to Panthera to lions and leopards and is vulnerable to the. They have amazingly strong necks and shoulders and are able to carry prey often heavier than themselves high up into the branches of trees where other predators cant reach.

Males weigh between 80 150 pounds and females between 60 100 pounds. The big cat species most threatened with extinction is the tiger which is listed as Endangered. Onca Near Threatened.