Big Cat Facts

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LIONS

The muzzle of a lion is like a finger print no two lions share the same pattern of whiskers.

A pride of lions can number from 4 to 47.

When a lioness is about to have her cubs she leaves the pride until her cubs can walk.

Lioness conduct 90% of the hunt,Hunting and domestic duties is the key to pride life.

Lions Live on average 20 years 26 in captivity.

A Lions roar can be heard for up to 5 miles.

Male Lions are 25% larger then the Females

Lions spend 20 or more hours a day resting

Lions are poor tree climbers but
they can jump up to 36 feet high.

Lions can run 37 mph.

A lions territory is determined by the
size of the pride an the availability
of prey and water.

The lions canine teeth are
about 60 millimeters long.

Lions are the only feline with tuffs
at the end of their tails.

Mane hairs on male Lions are
up to 16 cm 6.3 inch long.

A Single Lion needs about 10 - 20 Large Animales a year
to sustain it in the wild.

Lion`s can`t Roar Until they reach 2yr`s Old

Largest Lion in captivity: 806 lbs (366 kg.

Largest Lion found in the wild: 702 lbs (318 kg) and 11′ (3.35 m.

LEOPARDS

Leopards are found through out Africa but not in the Sahara.

A Leopard likes to drink daily
But could go a month without water.

Each Leopard can be Identified by
its unique pattern of spots.

CHEETAHS

Cheetahs can run up to 70 mph.

Cheetahs are the only cat that can`t retract it`s claws.

From a standstill,the cheetah can reach it`s top speed in about three seconds.

Cheetahs favorite prey are Thompson`s gazzelle

Cheetahs top speed 70 mph in 2-3
Seconds can maintain speed for 1000 feet.

With each stride a Cheetah can
cover 23 feet.

The eyes of all cats but the Cheetah have pupils that close to a Vertical slit.
The cheetah has close to a circle pupil. This helps keep out bright light
an allow for sharper focus and grrreater death of field.

TIGERS

An average tiger litter consists of three cubs.

There is eight subspecies of tigers reconized today.

Tigers have striped skin,not just striped fur.

There are three subspecies of Tigers that are extinc the Bali tiger,Javan tiger and the Caspian tiger.

A tigress becomes sexually mature at three to four years old.

The sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies,and the siberiantiger has the fewest stripes.

A tigers paw prints are called pug marks.

A tigers sense of smell is poor.

Tigers occupy a range from Soviet Union and Iran,through India,China,southeast Asia ,Malaysiaand Indonesia.

In a good leap,a tiger can cover more than 30 feet.

The Siberian Tiger needs to eat over 20 pounds of meat a day to sustainitself in the cold climate.It is capable of eatingover 100 pounds of meat in one sitting.

A Tigers paw prints are called pug marks A tigers forefeet have five toes and the hind feethave four toes.All toes have claws.The Claws are80 to 100 mm in length.

The length of a tigers canine teeth can be between 74.5 to 90mm.

A Tigers tail is 3 to 4 foot long about half as long as its body.

A Tigers territory can rangefrom 10 - 30 sqare miles

The heaviest Tiger recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records is a 1,025 pound male Siberian Tiger.

On average.Tigers weigh 15 to 20 percent more then African Lions,The second largest feline speciesThe very largest of tigers exceed the largest lions in size by even greater percentages

The bengal tigers roar can be heard 2 miles away.

Bengal Tigers purr, domestic cats
purr when breathing in as well as out
Tigers purr only when breathing out.

A Tiger Cub will make it`s first
Kill around 18 months of age.

Adult Tigers have 30 Teeth.

Tiger cubs can stay with their
Mother for up to 2-3 years.

In about 100 years Only 12 White Tigers
have been seen in the wild of India.

Largest Siberian Tiger found in the wild: 845 lbs/ 384 kg.

Longest Siberian Tiger found in the wild: 12′9″/ 3.9 m.

Largest Bengal Tiger found in the wild: 857 lbs/ 389 kg.
3.22 m 10 ft 7 in between pegs (3.37 m 11ft over the curves.

The largest tiger ever held in captivity, and the heaviest natural big cat on record
is a nine-year-old male Siberian named ‘Jaipur’ owned by animal trainer
Joan Byron-Marasek of Clarksburg, New Jersey, USA.
This tiger measured 3.32 m 10 ft 11in in total
length and weiged 423 kg 932 lb in October 1986.

Cougars,Mountain Lions,Pumas,Catamounts

A mountain lions tail is used for balancing.

Mountain lions are one of the mostwidely distributed of mammals.

Cougars are champion jumpers among cats, able to execute a 30 ft standing broad jump or an 18 ft jump straight up the face of a cliff.

A cougar from a suitable vantage point can drop 65 ft to the ground with out injuring itself.

Cougar Cubs weigh "1lb" at birth,Butby one year of age they are 60-90 pounds.

A Cougar in the 100 meters
can run 45 mph in 4.7 seconds.

JAGUARS

Jaguars rang from sothern Arizona and New Mexico to lower Patagonia.

Like tigers, Jaguars sometimes spend the
heat of the day half-submerged in a stream.

The Jaguars produces the most powerful
bite of any of the big cats.

SNOW LEOPARDS

A snow leopard can leap up to 50 feet.

A Snow Leopards tail is
90% of it`s body lenght.

OTHER CAT FACTS

All the big cats, including lions and tigers,
react to catnip just the way our little cats do. In fact,
some zoos give their big cats catnip as part of
a general program of environmental enrichment.

The larger a Cat the
larger its homerang is.

Clouded Leopards have the longest
canine teeth of any living cat.

Cats were firt domesticated about
4,000 years ago by the Egyptians,Who
worshiped felines.

Ligers and Tigons are *man made* since lions and tigers don`t mate in the wildA liger has a male lion father and female tiger mother Tigons are the reverse. Male tiger,female lion.

A cat uses its whiskers to determine
if a space is too small to squeeze through.

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds
Dogs only have 10.

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