Big Cats Species List

The lion has a short sandy-colored coat.

Big cats species list. North African leopard with possibly a handful surviving in the wild the North African leopard is one of the most threatened of the leopard subspecies. List by Common Name. The term big cats generally refers to lions tigers leopards and jaguars the four wild cats that roar.

All Wild Cat Lists. In these species the epihyal bone part of the voice box is replaced by a ligament. The lion is the only truly social cat.

Other people consider all species within the subfamily Pantherinae to be big cats. And some wild cats occupy enormous ranges geographic distribution such as the puma cougar which occupies the biggest range of any terrestrial mammal in the western hemisphere see Puma Cat Range. But somethe lion tiger leopard snow leopard clouded leopard jaguar lynx and cheetahare big.

It is the sixth most endangered mammal of big cat species. The lion is the worlds second-largest cat species. Other big cats including the Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and African lion have more limited ranges and are adapted to fewer habitat types.

There are four big cats that can roar. Many of the cats have new scientific names some new species have been declared and some species have been reclassified as subspecies. There is also a broader more common definition of big cats that includes cheetahs clouded leopards snow leopards and mountain lions cougars.

Below is a list giving some basic data on the 36 species of cats still living in this world with us. Unfortunately amur leopards are one of the worlds most endangered big cats. Then there are a whole range of different types of big cats that have been bred by humans as hybrid animals leopon liger tigon and more but these have been left out of this list.