Big Cats Species List

Only the tiger is bigger.

Big cats species list. The leopard is an elegant and powerful endangered cat. The weight data available is vary variable. A list of big cats using this definition is shown below.

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. 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. 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 term big cats generally refers to lions tigers leopards and jaguars the four wild cats that roar. The lion is the worlds second-largest cat species. Wild Cats of Africa.

Most like the margay are relatively small. 11 rows This list of largest cats shows the 10 largest extant Felidae species ordered by. For some species we have huge numbers of records for others we have few.

In these species the epihyal bone part of the voice box is replaced by a ligament. It is the sixth most endangered mammal of big cat species. List by Common Name.

But somethe lion tiger leopard snow leopard clouded leopard jaguar lynx and cheetahare big. Lion tiger leopard and jaguar all of which belong to the genus Panthera says Stephen Mills. Unfortunately amur leopards are one of the worlds most endangered big cats.