Big Cats Species List

11 rows This list of largest cats shows the 10 largest extant Felidae species ordered by.

Big cats species list. It has well-muscled body thick limbs and broad powerful paws. Below is a list giving some basic data on the 36 species of cats still living in this world with us. There are four big cats that can roar.

Other big cats including the Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and African lion have more limited ranges and are adapted to fewer habitat types. 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. For some species we have huge numbers of records for others we have few.

Species List Protecting Wildlife WWF. 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. The lion is the worlds second-largest cat species.

North African leopard with possibly a handful surviving in the wild the North African leopard is one of the most threatened of the leopard subspecies. A list of big cats using this definition is shown below. The lion has a short sandy-colored coat.

List by Endangered Status. The term big cats generally refers to lions tigers leopards and jaguars the four wild cats that roar. Other people consider all species within the subfamily Pantherinae to be big cats.

No wild cats list would be complete without the lion. Or in one case only one inaccurate record. The weight data available is vary variable.