Big Cat Animal Facts

Living at elevations as high as 5500 m 18000 ft the snow leopard is specially adapted to frigid high-altitude.

Big cat animal facts. While once found throughout much of Africa Asia and Europe lions are presently encountered in the wild only in Africa and in the Gir Forest of India. Their territories can extend to 450sq km though in the prey-rich Mara rarely exceed 76sq km. Explorers-at-Large Dereck and Beverly Joubert and the National Geographic Society founded the Big Cats Initiative in 2009 as an effort to halt the decline of big cats in the wild.

Home animals Facts about cats. Their range spans 12 countries covering about 14 million square km 540000 sq. Called the Ghost of the Mountains the snow leopard is a solitary elusive big cat that lives in the harsh rugged mountains of central Asia.

The five big cat species have all been assessed and categorised by the IUCN Red List. The Leopard is a species of big cat found in sub-Saharan Africa Asia and parts of Russia. It is about half the size of the domestic cat.

The lion is the second largest cat after the tiger. Females patrol pockets of the Mara between 15 and 18sq km. It is similar in appearance to the Jaguar but slightly smaller with a slenderer body.

Research by Adam Hartstone-Rose and colleagues at the University of South Carolina who compared the bite forces of nine different cat species reveals that a jaguars bite force is only three-quarters as strong as a tigers bite force. The Jouberts are globally known conservationists and filmmakers who have been working to help save big cats other key wildlife species and their habitats for over 30. Its short sleek coat varies greatly from pale straw and gray buff to bright deep ochre and chestnut and sometimes black found mostly in wetter dense forests.

Males weigh between 80 150 pounds and females between 60 100 pounds. The leopard is the smallest of the four Big Cats but is probably the most powerful pound-for-pound. Its pale golden coat is covered in distinctive rosettes which unlike those of the Jaguar are not filled with spots.