All Big Cats Species

This wild cat species list shows the 40 wild cats in the Felidae family - their common and scientific names and the continent where they occur.

All big cats species. That would be the cheetah. These short-tailed cats who were bred in the US. Many of the species considered to be big cats are currently threatened with extinction.

Note that there are a few multi-continent species and there are no wild cats in Australasia. The list is sorted from the most severe Endangered Status to the least severe according to the IUCN Red List extinction risk categories. Its pale golden coat is covered in distinctive rosettes which unlike those of the Jaguar are not filled with spots.

The Leopard is a species of big cat found in sub-Saharan Africa Asia and parts of Russia. There are four big cats that can roar. Facts information about the Big Cats Tiger Tours.

Click on the column heading to sort by that column. But somethe lion tiger leopard snow leopard clouded leopard jaguar lynx and cheetahare big. Wild dogs hyenas and other big cats are pretty keen to take away a cheetahs kill.

Some people take the view that size is all so include some additional large cats such as cheetah cougar and lynx as a type of big cat. The third subfamily is considered part of the Felinae. Most like the margay are relatively small.

Starting in the 1960s according to TICA make a great family pet since theyre sociable with humans of all ages and even other friends of the four-legged variety. Although the cougar cheetah and Eurasian Lynx are all big cats in terms of physical size only by the loosest definition of the term can they be considered to be true big cats. In these species the epihyal bone part of the voice box is replaced by a ligament.