Cougar

Beauty Of Animal | Cougar |  Cougar is a Native American, particularly South America and western North America, and is often known by other names such as mountain lions, pumas and panthers. Cougars can be found mainly in the mountainous regions of Canada and Mexico, but as the name cougar is often used to describe an un-spotted leopards, cougars are also found in Asia and Africa. The cougar is the fourth largest cat in the world behind the lion, tiger and jaguar, cougar cat made ​​the second largest in the United States. The cougar has a length back of the front legs and long body weight.

Cougars prey on large mammals such as deer, elk, wolves and stray and can often go for long periods without food. Cougars are also known for their amazing ability to jump to 30ft. Cougars tend to have between 1 and 4 children, usually during the spring and summer when adult cougars hunt better after a harsh winter. A cougar usually live to about 20 years.

Due to wide range of cougars, cougar known in different places by different names. Until the late 1990s there were considered 32 different species of cougar inhabiting North and South America. Recent studies however, have shown that the DNA of 32 species the majority of cougar too similar. There is therefore only 5 different species of cougar found in the Americas. 

 

Today the cougar is found only in some parts of Florida in the U.S. Northeast and the range of cougars on the west coast have been dramatically reduced by human intervention. Cougar is most commonly found in the Canadian Rockies and the more mountainous areas of southern Mexico.

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Puma

Beauty Of Animal | Puma | Classification and Evolution, Puma is the Cat, the great secret is mainly found in the mountains south of Canada to the tip of South America. Also known as the Cougar and Lion Mountain, Pumas can reach larger sizes than some 'big' cat people but despite their large size is believed to be more closely related to species of small cats. Because of wide distribution, there are 7 subspecies of Puma all of which share similar characteristics but tend to be slightly different in color and sometimes size. 

 

Puma is considered one of the most adaptable cats in the Americas because they are found in a variety of different habitats and unlike many species Cat, Puma has no signs on the feather leads to the scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color ' . Anatomy and appearance Puma, Puma is a predator that is very strong and has a slightly muscular hind legs are longer and stronger than the front, which makes them more agile when jumping.

Puma Behaviour and Lifestyle
The Puma is a solitary animal with the exception of the time children spend time with their mother. Pumas patrol large home ranges in search of food that vary from 80 square miles in summer to 40 in winter, when snow fell restrict access to some of the mountain areas. Some areas may become so hostile that Pumas migrated from the mountain forest and down into the valley to avoid the worst of the cold. Pumas are known to make a variety of different sounds, especially when the other Puma warning them away from the area and during the breeding season when they are looking for a partner.

Puma Predators and Threats
The Puma is one of the most dominant predator in many of their natural environment and are therefore rarely eaten by other species. It is known however, for the Pumas who are vulnerable because of illness or injury to be preyed upon by other large predators including the Bears and Wolves, and even other Pumas. The biggest threat to Puma, but are people who not only hunted this Cat is great (especially for the fur) but Puma has also undergone drastic habitat loss throughout much of the natural range, primarily due to expanding human settlements and deforestation for agriculture. In some areas they are hunted by ranchers who blame them for the loss of livestock Pumas.

Puma Relationship to Humans
Puma is a fearsome predator, and although attacks on human are rare, they still happen. There were nearly 100 attacks recorded in Humans but mostly because Puma has cornered or feel threatened in some way. Rare cases of severe famine also led Pumas Man attacked although this is not common because people are generally not seen as their prey. Total population of cougars throughout North and South America have declined over the last century in particular, mainly because of habitat loss and shooting Pumas by farmers who fear for their animals.

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Bobcat

Beauty Of Animal |  Bobcat | The Bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a North American mammal of the cat family Felidae, appear during the Irvingtonian stage of about 1.8 million years (AEO). With twelve recognized subspecies, it ranges from southern Canada to northern Mexico, including most of the continental United States. The Bobcat is an adaptable predator that forested areas, as well as semi-desert, urban edge, forest edges and swampland environments inhabited. It consists of much of its original range and populations are healthy.

With a gray to brown coat, whiskered face, and black-tufted ears, the Bobcat resembles the other species of the genus Lynx medium. It is smaller on average than the Canadian Lynx, with which it shares parts of its range, but is about twice as large as the domestic cat. It has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black tip, stubby tail, from which it derives its name.

Scientific classification

Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:         Mammalia
Order:         Carnivora
Family:         Felidae
Genus:         Lynx
Species:     L. rufu

Although the lynx pulls rabbits and hares, it is nothing of the small rodents and insects, to hunt deer. Prey selection depends on location and habitat, season, and abundance. Like most cats, the Bobcat is territorial and largely solitary, although there is some overlap in areas. It uses several methods to their territorial boundaries, including claw marks and mark deposits of urine or feces. The Bobcat breeds from winter into spring and has a gestation period of about two months.

Although lynx were extensively hunted by humans, both for sport and fur, its population has to be resilient. The robbers volatile functions in Native American mythology and folklore of the European settlers.Bobcats are elusive and nocturnal, they are rarely seen by humans. Although they are rarely seen, they roam in large parts of North America and adapt well to such diverse habitats such as forests, swamps, deserts and even suburban areas.

Bobcats, sometimes called wildcats, are roughly twice as large as the average house cat. They have long legs, large paws, and tufted ears similar to those of its larger relative, the Canada lynx. Most bobcats are brown or brownish red with a white underbelly and short, black-tipped tail. The cat is named for its tail, which seems to be cut or "bobbed." Fierce hunters can kill Bobcats prey much larger than itself, but usually eat rabbits, birds, mice, squirrels and other small game. The Bobcat can hunt through the back door, but delivers the final blow with a leaping throw to 10 feet (3 meters) 

Bobcats are solitary animals. Women choose a remote cave to a litter of 1-6 kittens, the increase remain with their mother for 9 to 12 months. During this time they will learn, before you hunt on their own. In some areas Bobcats are still trapped for their soft, spotted fur. North American population are likely to be quite large, perhaps with no less than one million cats in the United States alone.

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Ring-Tailed Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Ring-Tailed Cat | The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family (not really a cat), native to arid regions of North America. It is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat or miner's cat, and is sometimes mistakenly called "civet cat" (according to similar, though unrelated, like a cat, omnivore of Asia and Africa) called. . Scientific name: Bassariscus astutus Geographical Range: Southwestern United States habitat. Have a variety of habitats, but prefer rocky regions, the ringtail is found in California, Colorado, eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Nevada, Texas, Utah, and northern and central Mexico.

 The ringtail is the state mammal of Arizona. It is also found in the Great Basin Desert. The ringtail prefers to live in rocky habitats associated with water. Physical Description: Adults are 14-16 cm long, around the base of the long tail. Ringtails are agile, catlike animals foxlike faces. Its tail has alternating bands of buff, white and black with the tail down. Can rotate their hind legs to allow easy descent on tree trunks. Ringtails have about 40 teeth and 6 mammaries Special adjustments.

Since ringtails are nocturnal animals, they have the "night life" through night vision devices adapted the eyes of nocturnal animals are usually large, this allows more retinal surface, which allows the eye. collect more light. The retina of nocturnal animals almost entirely of sticks, which are specialized for night vision, together. Ringtails have Eyeshine red or yellow. Ringtails hunt at night, dispatching their small prey with a bite in the neck.

 Predators of ringtails include horned owls, bobcats, coyotes, raccoons and. Reproductive behavior: start Ringtails, sexual behavior at 13 weeks of age show the average litter consists of 3.3 young, the young begin reproduction in the spring after the birth of their social organization. Generally, the adults are known to the family alone in close proximity to each other. The young stay with their mother until their first breeding season, then begin by the independent.

 

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Ocelot

Beauty Of Animal | Ocelot | Twice as big as the average house cat, the ocelot is a sleek animal with a beautiful spotted fur. These largely nocturnal cats use keen sight and hearing to hunt rabbits, rodents, iguanas, fish and frogs. The ocelot ranges from 68 to 100 centimeters (27 to 39 in) in length, plus 26 to 45 cm long (10 to 18 in) in the tail and usually weighs 8-18 kg (18-40 lb), although much larger individuals was recorded occasionally, and thus the largest of the dainty Leopardus wild cat species. It has slender, smooth fur, round ears and relatively large paws. The coat pattern of the ocelot may vary, since everything from cream to reddish-brown in color, sometimes gray, and marked with black 

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:         Mammalia
Order:         Carnivora
Family:     Felidae
Genus:         Leopardus
Species:     L. pardalis

 

The Ocelot is mostly nocturnal and very territorial. . Men occupy areas from 3.5 to 46 square kilometers (1.4 to 18 sq km), while females occupy smaller, non-overlapping areas from 0.8 to 15 square kilometers (0.31 to 5.8 km ²). Ocelots hunt over an area of 18 km2 (6.9 square miles), with mainly small mammals (various rodents), reptiles and amphibians (lizards, turtles and frogs), crabs, birds and fish. Almost all of the loot, the Ocelot hunts is much smaller than itself, with rodents, rabbits and possums are the largest part of the food is. studies suggest that it follows and finds prey via odor trails, but the Ocelot also has very good visibility, even at night

Ocelots typically breed only once every two years, although the female can mate again ready shortly after the loss of a litter. . The small litter size and relative rarity of the breed make ocelot particularly vulnerable to population loss. Compared with other small cats, ocelot kittens grow very slowly. . Ocelots live up to 20 years in captivity

 

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Leopard

Beauty Of Animal | Leopard  | The leopard, Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its range of distribution has decreased radically because of hunting and loss of habitat. It is now chiefly found in sub-Saharan Africa; there are also fragmented populations in the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China.

The species' success in the wild is in part due to its opportunistic hunting behavior, its adaptability to habitats, its ability to run at speeds approaching 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph), its unequaled ability to climb trees even when carrying a heavy carcass, and its notorious ability for stealth. The leopard consumes virtually any animal that it can hunt down and catch. Its habitat ranges from rainforest to desert terrains.

Physical characteristics
Leopards are agile and stealthy predators. Although smaller than other members of the Panthera genus, they are able to take large prey due to their massive skulls that facilitate powerful jaw muscles. Head and body length is between 95 and 165 cm (37 and 65 in), and the tail reaches 60 to 110 cm (24 to 43 in). Shoulder height is 45 to 80 cm (18 to 31 in). The muscles attached to the scapula are exceptionally strong, which enhance their ability to climb trees. They are very diverse in size. Males are about 30% larger than females, weighing 30 to 91 kg (66 to 200 lb) compared to 23 to 60 kg (51 to 130 lb) for females. Large males of up to 91 kg (200 lb) have been documented in Kruger National Park in South Africa; however, males in the South Africa's coastal mountains average 31 kg (68 lb) and the females from the desert-edge in Somalia average 23 to 27 kg (51 to 60 lb).

Scientific classification
Kingdom:     Animalia
Phylum:     Chordata
Class:         Mammalia
Order:         Carnivora
Family:         Felidae
Genus:         Panthera
Species:     P. pardus

Taxonomy and evolution

Like all of the feline family, the Panthera genus has been subject to much alteration and debate, and the exact relations between the four species as well as the clouded leopard and snow leopard have not been effectively resolved. Carl Linnaeus placed leopards under the genus Felis as the binominal Felis pardus. In the 18th and 19th centuries, most naturalists and taxonomists followed his example. In 1816, Lorenz Oken proposed a definition of the genus Panthera, with a subgenus Panthera using Linnaeus’ Felis pardus as a type specimen. But most disagreed with his definition, and until the beginning of the 20th century continued using Felis or Leopardus when describing leopard subspecies. In 1916, Reginald Innes Pocock accorded Panthera generic rank defining Panthera pardus as species.

It is believed that the basal divergence amongst the Felidae family occurred about 11 million years ago. The last common ancestor of the lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, snow leopard, and clouded leopard is believed to have occurred about 6.37 million years ago. Panthera is believed to have emerged in Asia, with ancestors of the leopard and other cats subsequently migrating into Africa. The researchers suggest that the snow leopard is most closely aligned with the tiger, whereas the leopard possibly has diverged from the Panthera lineage subsequent to these two species, but before the lion and jaguar. Fossils of early leopard ancestors have been found in East Africa and South Asia from the Pleistocene of 2 to 3.5 Ma. The modern leopard is suggested to have evolved in Africa 470,000–825,000 years ago and radiated across Asia 170,000–300,000 years ago.

Distribution and habitat
Leopards have the largest distribution of any wild cat, occurring widely in eastern and central Africa, although populations have shown a declining trend and are fragmented outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Within sub-Saharan Africa, the species is still numerous and even thriving in marginal habitats where other large cats have disappeared. But populations in North Africa may be extinct. Leopards live mainly in grasslands, woodlands, and riverine forests. They are usually associated with savanna and rainforest, but leopards are exceptionally adaptable: in the Russian Far East, they inhabit temperate forests where winter temperatures reach a low of −25 °C (−13 °F).

Ecology and behavior

Leopards are elusive, solitary and largely nocturnal. They have primarily been studied in open savanna habitats, which may have biased common descriptions. Activity level varies depending on the habitat and the type of prey that they hunt. Radio-tracking and scat analysis in West Africa showed that rainforest leopards are more likely to be diurnal and crepuscular. Forest leopards are also more specialized in prey selection and exhibit seasonal differences in activity patterns.

Leopards are known for their ability in climbing, and have been observed resting on tree branches during the day, dragging their kills up trees and hanging them there, and descending from trees headfirst. They are powerful swimmers, although not as strong as some other big cats, such as the tiger. They are very agile, and can run at over 58 kilometres per hour (36 mph), leap over 6 metres (20 ft) horizontally, and jump up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) vertically. They produce a number of vocalizations, including grunts, roars, growls, meows, and "sawing" sounds.

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Persian Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Persian Cat | Persian cat is a longhaired marked round face and muzzle shortened. Its name refers to Persia, the former name of Iran, where they found the cats are similar. He was recognized by the cat fancy since the 19th century late, developed for the first time by the British, then American breeders mainly after World War II. In Britain, is called in Persian taste or taste.This has allowed for the selective breeding carried out by educators in the development of a wide range of colors and coat, but also led to the creation of the Persian flat faced more and more. Fanciers preferred, and can be President of this structure brings with it a number of health problems.

As with the Siamese breed, there have been efforts by some educators to maintain the type of the oldest cat with the muzzle more visible, which is more popular with the public. And polycystic kidney disease is common in genetic strain, which affects nearly half the population in some countries.Quiet, modest nature of the Persian given the propensity to live in an apartment. Was a descendant of the most popular in the United States for many years but his popularity has seen a decline in Britain and France.In general, it's not clear when the cats longhaired appeared for the first time, as there are no feral cats in Africa, which is thought [citation needed] the ancestors of cats domesticated, with long fur. There were claims [by whom?] In the 19th century that was introduced in the genes responsible for long hair through hybridization with Pallas cat, however, research in the early 20th century were imported refutes this theory.

The first documented ancestors of the Persian from Khorasan and Persia to Italy in 1620 by Pietro della Valle, and Angora (now Ankara), Turkey to France by Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc about the same time. The cats Khorasan coated gray while those of the Angora were white. From France, arrived in Britain soon. was also imported longhaired cats to Europe from Afghanistan, Burma, China and Russia. And hybridization of different types, especially the joint between Angoras and Persians.Recent genetic research suggests that being associated with the Persians of today is not for cats from the Near East, but for cats from Western Europe. The researchers said that "despite the fact that the Persian cat in early may actually originated from ancient Persia, the Persian cat has modern phylogeographical signature."

 

 

 
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Amur Leopard

Beauty Of Animal | Amur Leopard | Amur Leopard - Panthera pardus orientalis In a survey conducted by biologists from the New York American Museum of Natural History, and 70% of those surveyed said that the biologists that 20% of the total population living animal may become extinct by the year 2028. Science has identified only about 2 million species, but it is estimated that this is only a small fraction of the number that has not been discovered, or that it has already gone extinct. Over the past 400 years, passed the 89 species of extinct mammals, and others were threatened with extinction 169.

While the fossil record indicates that the loss of biodiversity due to extinction is a phenomenon that can be recovered from it, it was time for recovery in the past on the order of millions of years. If we humans do not take action to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, we may be those that are at risk of extinction if the future. Here are 10 of the endangered species in the world - and there are many endangered species that are more or endangered with becoming, but it is most vulnerable to extreme threat of extinction

 

Amur leopards are one of the most endangered species on the planet and the most endangered big cat. There appears to be poaching of leopards as well as their prey species. Poachers include both poor local villagers and newly rich Russians, mainly from the city of Vladivostok, as well as Chinese nationals who illegally cross the border into Russia. Russian hunters kill many more deer than is officially allowed and Amur leopards are sometimes caught in snares as well. Since 2002, skins or corpses of nine Amur leopards killed by poachers have been found in Russia and at least two leopards have been killed in China.

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Persian Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Persian Cat  | The beautiful Persian has a long and distinguished history and has appeared in cat shows for over 100 years. It is currently the most popular breed registered in Australia. Famous for their placid, gentle temperament, Persians are quiet and affectionate and have an ability to adapt to any environment. However, they do not appreciate being teased or having their hair pulled and are probably more suitable to adult households or those with gentle children.

The Persian is particularly well suited as a house or apartment cat and being an indoor cat also helps to keep its coat in optimum condition. Potential owners must be prepared to groom the glorious coat daily. This is a high maintenance breed which depends totally on its owner for its comfort and wellbeing. If grooming is neglected for any length of time the coat matts and will require expert attention. Persians moult heavily twice a year, and shed some hair all year round.

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