Big Cat Family Species

Some people use the term big cat to refer to all species in the genus Panthera in which case the list of big cats would look like this.

Big cat family species. The puma a member of the family Felidae has the widest distribution of any New World mammal with a range extending from southeastern Alaska to southern. Species in this family are found in all areas of the world except for Australia and Antarctica. Lion tiger jaguar leopard snow leopard mainland clouded leopard and sunda.

From the biggest to the smallest there are 38 cat species found worldwide. We reveal how they evolve. Tiger Panthera tigris Lion Panthera leo.

The species making up the big cat family are lions tigers leopards and jaguars. There are 36 species of cats in this family. Puma Puma concolor large brownish New World cat comparable in size to the jaguarthe only other large cat of the Western Hemisphere.

We discover how the first cats arose in the forests of Asia how they spread across the continent and later came to conquer Africa. Under the skin one cat species appears pretty similar to another. They vary in size from the domestic cat to the lion.

Today the group consists of three very diverse cat species - the Cheetah Puma and Jaguarundi. There are 36 species of cats in this family. The members of this family are built for hunting.

Experts generally agree that there are 37 species in the family Felidae but they have offered dozens of classification schemes ordering cat species in as few as two to as many as 23 genera. The Puma and Jaguarundi spread to South America during the second ice age whereas the Cheetah migrated back into Eurasia and ultimately into Africa. A comparison of wild cat species by size is I think interesting.