Wild cats?

Question

Can anyone name all the big cats in the wild??

Answer 1

It depends on what you consider "the big cats" to include. Many scientists argue it should include only the animals in the genus Panthera, which are the only large cats that are able to roar. This traditional definition includes the lion, tiger, leopard, and jaguar.

Other definitions would include the cheetah, snow leopard, clouded leopard, Bornean clouded leopard, and cougar as well.

Answer 2

It depends on what you consider a "big cat".

Overall there are a total of 36 species of wild cats, that however does not include subspecies. For example the 36 list includes "tigers" as one rather than 5 species that are still left today.

The list of 36 includes the following, next to them I placed what most consider them as. Please not I said "MOST" and that they are not official.

African Golden Cat - small
Asian Golden Cat - small
Andean Mtn Cat - small
Bay Cat - small
Black-footed Cat - small
Bobcat - small
Caracal - small
Cheetah - medium
Chinese Desert Cat - small
Clouded Leopard - small/medium
Cougar - medium/large
Fishing Cat - small
Flat-headed Cat - small
Geoffrey's Cat - small
Iriomote Cat - small
Jaguar - medium/large
Jaguarundi - small
Jungle Cat - small
Kodkod - small
Leopard - medium/large
Leopard Cat - small
Lion - large
Little Spotted Cat - small
Lynx, Canadian - medium
Lynx, Eurasian - medium
Lynx, Spanish - medium
Margay - small
Marbled Cat - small
Ocelot - small
Pallas Cat - small
Pampas Cat - small
Rusty-Spotted Cat - small
Sand Cat - small
Serval - small
Snow Leopard - medium
Tiger - large
Wildcat-African - small
Wildcat-Asiatic - small
Wildcat-European - small

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

What you consider big cats are the four species in the family Panthera: They would be the tiger, lion, jaguar and the leopard.

Other species are sometimes called the big cats because of their size. They are the cougar, cheetah, the snow leopard, the clouded and the Bornean clouded leopard.