Small Big Cats List

They become most active at daytime.

Small big cats list. Only the tiger is bigger. Thats quite different from most other species of wild cats. North America hosts two species of big wild cats and four species of small wild cats.

The term small cats may also refer more narrowly to the members of the genus Felis. Tiger Panthera tigris Lion Panthera leo Jaguar Panthera onca Leopard Panthera pardus Snow leopard Panthera uncia Sunda clouded leopard Neofelis diardi Clouded leopard Neofelis nebulosa. No wild cats list would be complete without the lion.

The lion has a short sandy-colored coat. Whereas most cats are solitary for most of their lives the lion lives in groups known as prides. Like their big cousins the small cats are threatened with habitat loss poaching and conflict with humans and livestockBut because they dont have high profiles in the media the small cats receive less than one percent of the total conservation funding available for wild cats.

Other people consider all species within the subfamily Pantherinae to be big cats. These cats primarily inhabit the mixed temperate rainforests in their range but are also found in other habitats like the fringes of human settlements and secondary forests. A list of big cats using this definition is shown below.

The cheetah and the puma though close in size to the big cats are grouped with the small cats because they cannot roar. Every other list I looked at had cheetahs pumas as big cats mainland Sunda clouded leopards as small cats. Here is a list of the top cat breeds with pictures.

You are feeling hemmed in somehow. If you are surrounded by these large cats and feeling threatened it is a symbol of the need to go inward. Its range is restricted to parts of southern Chile and Argentina.