Big Cats Species In India

Gir Lion Bengal tiger Indian leopard Snow leopard.

Big cats species in india. The Lions The Tigers and the Leopard along with many other smaller cat species. Most like the margay are relatively small. Linnell3 Jagdish Krishnaswamy4 Ullas Karanth1 1Wildlife Conservation Society-India Centre for Wildlife Studies Bangalore Karnataka India 2Faculty of Applied Ecology and Agricultural Sciences Hedmark University.

For a long time it was believed that there were several lion subspecies. It is also protected by several national laws in its range countries. IUCN status- Endangered.

The lion is one of the five big cats in the genus Panthera which also includes the tiger jaguar leopard and snow leopard. CAT FAMILY OF INDIA India is the only country in the world to have the distinction of having 3 main species of Cats in its tally ie. Felidae is the biological family of Big Cats of India and member of this family is called Felid.

Big Cats TigerLionLeopard and jaguar are define this family. The Big Cats that are not found in their natural habitats in India are Jaguar and Cheetah. Photographic capture recapture has been used for estimating densities of many secretive large carnivore species including tigers leopards snow leopards Panthera uncia jaguars Panthera onca and hyaenas.

Four big cat species are found in India in wild viz. In addition the snow leopard like all big cats is listed on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species CITES which makes trading of animal body parts ie fur bones and meat illegal in signatory countries. Undoubtedly the largest wild cat species alive on earth the Royal Bengal tiger is the national animal of India.

Among the cats are the elusive and rare clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa the marbled cat Pardofelis marmorata and the Asian golden cat Catopuma temminckii besides the relatively more widely distributed tiger Panthera tigris the leopard Panthera pardus the leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis and the jungle cat Felis chaus. Even though they differ from each other in appearance. But somethe lion tiger leopard snow leopard clouded leopard jaguar lynx and cheetahare big.