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How many different kinds of wild cats are there?
While the total number of known species of wild cats varies, the eight Felidae lineages are largely accepted. As of November 2017, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Cat Specialist Group recognized 41 species in the Felidae family (including the domestic cat).
The Felidae family is divided into two subfamilies: Pantherinae, which includes the seven big cats, and Felinae, which includes the 33 small cats.
What are the names of the seven big cats?
The seven big cats are large-bodied felids of the Pantherinae subfamily. They are the following: lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard, and Sunda clouded leopard. Also, you will find out which Big Cat are you in this quiz.
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What is the most elusive wild cat?
It’s tough to say which wild cat is the most endangered because we don’t know enough about the populations of some of the most endangered felids. The Amur leopard is one of the rarest cats, with only about 90 individuals remaining in the wild in Russia’s Far East.
There may be even fewer Iranian cheetahs left in the wild, but data on the Iranian cheetah is scarce due to the difficulties of doing fieldwork in a politically volatile region.
Because no wild individuals have been recorded since the late 1980s, the South China tiger may already be extinct.
Which wild cat species are the most endangered?
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species includes five endangered felids: the tiger, Iberian lynx, Borneo bay cat, fishing cat, and flat-headed cat.
Here is a breakdown of the lower classification of wild cats, containing a list of all 40 wild cat species (not counting the domestic cat). To learn more about a species, click on its name or scroll down to get a description, image, and information on where to observe it in the wild.
The Siberian tiger is the world’s largest cat, weighing 320 kg. Unfortunately, the tiger is the most endangered big cat. Tigers were once found in Turkey and the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java in the early half of the twentieth century. These three subspecies are no longer extant. With only about 20 individuals surviving in the wild, the South China tiger has already passed the point of no return. The surviving five subspecies are all at different stages of extinction.
We almost lost the Siberian tiger as well, but happily, intensive conservation efforts in the Russian Far East have been implemented in the last several decades, and the monarch of the Siberian taiga has been brought back from the brink of extinction.
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The lion, the world’s second-largest animal, previously roamed most of Africa as well as parts of Europe and Asia. Today, the population is limited to a few scattered populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and a single Critically Endangered population in India. The Barbary lion, which used to roam the wilds of Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria, is already extinct.
Historically, there were two sorts of lions: African lions and Asiatic lions. However, genetic research has proven that Asiatic lions are part of the same subspecies as the Northern lion, which also contains the Critically Endangered West African lion and the Central African lion. The second subspecies consists of the Southern African and East African lions.
The leopard caught the experts off guard. It has the broadest distribution range of any big cat, ranging from Sub-Saharan Africa to Central Asia, then across the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia. While some leopard subspecies are critically endangered, the species was thought to be quite secure. Until experts discovered that leopards had lost 75% of their historic territory and that the number was declining.
Leopards can be found in portions of Africa and Sri Lanka. Leopards can be found in Kruger National Park, Serengeti National Park, Chobe National Park, Ngorongoro Crater National Park, and most other National Parks in southern and eastern Africa.
The most water-loving large cat is the jaguar. It is a great swimmer and is frequently seen resting on tree branches overhanging rivers. It also possesses the most powerful bite in relation to body size of any big cat. Its powerful teeth can shatter the skull of an adult caiman, its preferred prey in the Pantanal.
Jaguars are uncommon among large cat species in that they have a single continuous population over their 6-million-square-kilometer habitat, which encompasses 18 countries. There are no jaguar subspecies. Taxonomically, it is the same cat that may be found all around the world.
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