Panthera – Meet the Felidae Family
Image from Arno & Louise
The panthera genus is comprised of the four largest members of the cat family, lions, tigers, jaguars & leopards.
The largest of the big cats, these four species also have an ability the rest of the felidae family doesn’t…they can roar.
Not just tough guys, the big cats have also been reported to purr, although from what we read it has not been clinically proven.
Among the largest land predators in the world almost every member of this genus is victim to very low numbers. We introduce to you genus panthera.
Jaguars have a wide range but the largest concentration is found in the Amazon Basin. These cats are the only members of the genus in the Americas & is the largest cat on either continent.
Leopards were originally found from the west tip of Europe to the eastern tip of Asia. Today they can only be found in Africa & parts of Asia. This subspecies is notable because they have adapted to living in close proximity to people without detection.
Lions are found almost exclusively in Africa (with one subspecies found in Asia). They live primarily on plains or savannah regions & unlike the rest of the genus they are social animals that live in prides.
Tigers are native throughout Asia into the middle east & southern islands. Today they are extinct in a large portion of their native territories and can only be found in eastern China, Korea, Russia & parts of India.
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these big cats will be extinct by 2020 if we don’t help them…i’m so sick of hunters and poachers. We need to focus on saving these animals as much as we do looking and listening to media gossip.