Felidae

The soft sounds of approaching footsteps outside my bedroom window intrigued me. Today, the familiar padding of cat’s paws took on a significant change I did not recognize. I knew that Scruffy, a scrawny alley-cat who eked out a meagre existence in our neighborhood, was late this day. Usually, this ageless creature made no other sounds as he neared my bedroom, but this morning he uttered several plaintive heart-rending cries and I wondered why. Scruffy is the name I knew him by, while my…

The Eurasian Lynx is one of four species of lynx. The scientific classification is the L. Lynx. Its natural habitats are the forests, tundra, and Mountains. They range in Scandinavia, Northern Europe, and Asia. they weigh up to about 84 pounds, but the average weight of a male is 48 lbs. The average weight of a female is 40 lbs. They rank the largest out of the whole species. Eurasian Lynx are nocturnal meaning, they sleep all day and go hunting during the night. Their diet contains of rabbits,…

The Amur Leopard or “Panthera pardus orientalis” (www.worldwildlife.org, 2014) is a critically endangered species with around only 30 known still alive. I chose this animal because Leopards have always managed to keep me engaged and keep my attention. I may not have been very knowledgeable on this animal before this project but by the time I’m done I expect to be an expert. In this paper I will cover the habitat of this animal and the types of food it gets, a description of my animal (what it…

Along the Central Asia there is a beautiful specie of leopard that is disappearing in the past few years. That animal is the snow leopards, they mainly feed on wild sheep, ibex, marmots and hares. They have long-paled gray fur that covers its body, and its patterned with black rosettes. They weighs about 145 lb, and they normally inhabit on cold snowy mountains or rocky outcrops. A long time ago there’s about 7,500 of these tiger-like mammals roaming in the world, but now there’s only about…

Cheetahs are large carnivore cats, meaning their food is meat, members of the Felida family and closely related to bobcats, lynxes and pumas. They are identified by their unique black spots on gold or yellow coats and are known for their amazing speed. The cheetah can reach speeds of 45 mph in 2.5 seconds but they can only sustain top speed up to 64 mph briefly. Cheetahs are 3.5 to 4.5 feet long from heat to rump, their tails add an additional 25 – 31 inches and normally weigh around 77 – 143…

The Snow Leopard Central Asia’s high mountains contain and is home to one of the most majestic carnivores known to man. The beautiful snow leopard can easily be recognized by its long tail, large black spots and almost white coat. Declining due to loss of habitat and climate change, there are as few of 4000 snow leopards in the wild. The earth has six major biomes. Tropical, grassland, desert, temperate, taiga and tundra. The snow leopard lives within the tundra biome. The snow leopard…

Why are the Felinae becoming endangered? The Felinae is a subclass of the class Felidae, which makes up the cat family. The Felinae are specifically the smaller cats, like the ocelot and serval, and a few medium sized cats, like the lynx and the cheetah. The domestic house cat is part of the Felinae group as well. Most people think of the bigger cats in the Felidae class when they think of endangered felines, but the smaller species are just as much at risk. The most influential issue here…

The two strategies outlined above may not be ideal conservation solutions as separate methods, but perhaps make work in conjunction with one another. A short-term strategy such as supplementary food items and the re-introduction of rabbit species may be used while the process of protecting an area is being completed. The short-term approach would allow the survival of the species hopefully for a duration that would provide a reasonable amount of time for the protected areas to come into practice…

cat. In fact, the jaguar's only living predator is a human with a firearm. The jaguar's padded feet make no noise on the forest floor, and the jaguar will not pounce on its prey until it nears it. The jaguar is a mammal and belongs to the family Felidae, a group that has thirty-seven species of wild and domestic cats. Although close to the modern jaguar, the prehistoric one was larger, heavier, and had longer legs. It developed into many subspecies, which most of them have likely died off and…

family (Ursidae), the raccoon family (Procyonidae), or a separate family that is a combination of both (1995). Genetic markers of the red panda were compared against four different carnivore species including the dog (Canidae: Canis famillaris), cat (Felidae: Fells catus), fanaloka (Viverridae: Fossa fossa), and mongoose (Herpestidae: Galidia elegans) in the hunt for red panda family. The result of these studies have left scientists with the conclusion that the red panda can be traced to both…