Lion

Lion (Panthera leo) is a predator of the cat family. The lion is found in Africa - mostly in polupustinite and rarely in deserts, and in some parts of India. Ever occurred in the whole of Africa. Today it has disappeared from the northern areas and too often can be seen in the west. In abundance was observed only in Kenya and Tanzania. About 190 lions live in the Gir forest in India south of Mumbai.
The lion is the second largest feline after the tiger. Life expectancy is 15-20 years in nature. The maximum speed at which pursue prey that reaches 60 km / h. With powerful legs and strong jaws and long canine teeth knocked the lion may kill and quite large prey. Of lion hair color ranges from fawn to yellowish, reddish or dark brown. Bottom in most cases it is lighter, and tufted tail - black. The color of the bracelet can be from yellow to black. Asiatic lions are different from African nature color of the abdominal part and less of the male's mane. The average weight of males reaches between 200 and 260 kg, while for females it ranged between 150 and 180 kg. Body length in the lions reach 170-250 cm, where lionesses - 140-175 cm. Tail length of 70-100 cm. It ends with a black tuft of hair, whose purpose is still unknown. Tufted absent at the birth of lion, formed around the 5-month, and about 7th is already fully developed. The most significant difference between male and female lions is the lack of mane and tail tuft at lionesses.
Lions are known for their hunting group. Usually female fish, males care for the safety of pride (the herd) you. Each clan occupies a territory of about 10-25 km2, as daily drivers and marked control it, leaving traces or through a powerful roar. On this territory are not permitted aliens lions. In most of the day spent sleeping lion, a fish in the cooler hours - evening or night. During the hottest hours of the day lions resting near water, shade plants or rocks. Sometimes someone dozing off in the low branches of trees. The lion sleeps 12 hours a day.

Male lions, aged two years, were expelled to the lion pride, the driver can not be shifted. If it changes, however, the new leader killing all the whelps, so that only lionesses to grow his seed. Females do not receive it until they become pregnant by him.
Aslan is reproduced at the end of the dry season. After pregnancy, lasting about three and a half months, the lioness gave birth to an average of four lions, at least half of which usually do not survive. At the beginning whelps are only fed with milk, but rather the mother started giving them food and semi. Lioness takes care of at least two years during the second half of this period, teach them to fish. When they grow sufficiently small, it takes them to pride.

Leopard

- Leopard Markings
Leopard is more silent than most of their fellow feral cats. Only in combat during the breeding he raised to allow such a noise.
Pregnancy in women takes about 3 months. Born between 1 and 4 small. Young leopardcheta grow much faster than tigarchetata - 2 years they are already fully developed and sexually mature females having completed their growth earlier than males. The average life expectancy of the leopard is between 12 and 17 years.
Leopard is a night hunter and loves to hunt from ambush. It is a wonderful climb trees, often planted on these suits, but found shelter for the rest of the day. Foods with smaller types of antelope, deer, deer and other ungulates. In their lack replacing them with rodents, monkeys and birds. Some leopards specialize in hunting dogs and pets.
And among leopards (though less than tigers and lions) appear cannibals. But boldness of the attacks they significantly outperform the larger relatives.
Leopard reasons to turn into cannibals are quite different from those of tigers - the most common causes them to hunger this incarnation because in the absence of sufficient food leopards eat carrion.

Snow Leopard

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Caracal

The caracal , also known as desert lynx is very beautiful wild cat, whose eyes radiate intelligence and concentration. You can encounter in the whole of Africa south of Sahara (not jungle) and the Arabian Peninsula (except the desert regions), Minor and Central Asia to India. Live in dry areas - forests, savannas, steppes and acacia scrub. The caracal is a nocturnal animal in the above areas, but in colder areas of the range he hunted at any time of day. It is the fastest wildcat by representatives of the Felidae family of this size. At the same time is nimble climber on trees, where the dangers or avoided (like the leopard) gets its prey to eaten alone.

Puma

Puma is the wild cat known to most names - record, which is officially recognized by Guinness. They call it Cougar, deer cat, mountain devil, royalist cat tibia mountain cat, silver lion, mountain lion ... But her grace and power were the object of awe and admiration in the cultures of Indians in the Americas.
Puma clock is active predator. It is designed to climb trees on steep mountain slopes and in the sprint to chase their prey on any terrain. You can jump distances of up to 12 meters of land! Like the lion, it has a stripe of hair color. Puma is the fourth largest in the world after the wild cat tiger, lion and jaguar.

Wild cat

The wild cat is a small predator of the cat family. Dimensions and are slightly larger than those derived from its domestic cats. Widespread in Europe before and Central Asia and Africa.

Body and is strong and keen, covered with dense hair. Its length is 45 to 80 centimeters (91), height to 43 cm, tail 29-34 cm, weight from 3 to 8 kg. Live in rocky or wooded areas and eats small mammals such as rodents and rabbits. Are known cases of assault on a young deer and goats. Prefers to hunt at night and avoid encounters with people, so are very rare and direct observation in nature.

Wild cat is a territorial animal, and as most of his relatives in the cat family, avoid the company of its kind outside the breeding season, which is twice a year (spring and autumn). After about two months pregnant females were usamotyava in a secret hollow of a tree and gave birth to three to six small, who is nursing about four months. Small are born blind and helpless, like a cat at home. Nowadays, the wild cat has become a relatively rare animal as domestic cats and people drift away from it biotopes, which traditionally inhabit.