By: Mark Lloyd M. Delas AlasIII-Platinum

THE CAT FAMILY

The Lion lives in Africa. The male lion is larger than the female. Only the male has a mane of long hair. Lions have very strong jaws. They can kill a zebra or an antelope with one sharp bite. They are very fast and can jump long distances. Lions sleep as much as nineteen hours a day. When the sun sets, they hunt for food. Often lions hunt in groups of four or eight. A mother lion has from two to four babies, called cubs. At birth, their fur is spotted. Cubs drink their mother's milk. Baby

lions are very playful. When the babies are one-and-one-half years old, the mother lion begins to teach them to hunt. A Lion cub has all it's teeth when it is three months old.

LIONS

Tigers live in jungle swamps or tall grasses of Asia. One kind lives in Siberia. Tigers are stronger and larger than lions. They are very smart and brave. They hunt for food at night. Only when a tiger is very hungry will it look for food when it is light. Tigers can swim and climb trees when they have to. They can also jump as high as fifteen feet. The tiger often hunts alone. A mother tiger has from three to five cubs or kittens. She takes good care of them. They stay close to their mother and drink her milk. Cubs stay with their mother for about

two years. They are full grown when they are four years old. There are two types of tigers, The Siberian Tiger, and The Bengal Tiger.

TIGERS

Leopards live in the forests of Asia and Africa. They are very fast runners, good tree climbers, and good jumpers. Leopards hunt at night. The mother leopard has from two to four cubs or kittens. She teaches them to hunt and to watch out for enemies. Leopards are

full grown when they are three years old. One kind of leopard, is the Snow Leopards

LEOPARDS

The Cheetah is also called the hunting leopard. It is so easy to tame that hunters can train it to catch animals for them. The Cheetah is tall with long legs. It can run as fast as seventy miles an hour for short distances. Cheetahs can jump as high as twenty feet. They are found in Asia and Africa. Cheetahs hunt in pairs or in small groups.

Before hunting, they always sharpen their claws on a tree.

CHEETAHS

The Jaguar is found in the wilds of Mexico and South America. In many ways, The Jaguar looks like a Leopard. It, Too, is light yellow with dark, circlelike spots. Jaguars hunt wild animals on the ground. They also go into water to catch fish, turtles, and water snakes. They will climb trees when they are hungry. The mother jaguar has two to four cubs. The father jaguar looks looks after the babies while the mother hunts for food.

JAGUARS

The Lynx has a thick coat of fur. Snowshoe Rabbits are it's favorite food. But when it is hungry it will eat squirrels, mice, foxes, and other small animals. One

kind of Lynx, Is The Canada Lynx.

LYNX

Pumas are found in South America and North America. Pumas are also called mountain lions, cougars, and sometimes even panthers. The mother has two to four kittens who are born with dark spots over their fur. These spots go away as the cubs grow older. Cubs stay with their mother until they are about

two years old and can hunt for their own food.

PUMAS

Ocelots live in the forests of North and South America. Ocelots have dark markings on their heads, necks, and bodies. They look so much like small tigers that they have at times been called leopard or tiger cats. Ocelots eat rats, mice, snakes, lizards, and other small

animals. When very hungry they may climb trees to find birds, and other animals.

OCELOTS

Bobcats are found in North America. They are shy animals and are not seen often. The color of the fur of these wild cats differs in different parts of the country. Swamps, Forests, Deserts, and Mountains are home to the Bobcats. They are good hunters. Rabbits are their favorite

food, but they can climb trees to get birds and other small birds

BOBCATS

CARACAL

The caracal, also known as the desert lynx, is a wild cat that is widely distributed across Africa, central Asia and southwest Asia into India. In 2002 the IUCN listed the

caracal as Least Concern as it is widespread and relatively common

The cougar, also known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, mountain cat, or catamount, is a large cat of the family Felidae native to the Americas.

COUGARS

The jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi syn. Herpailurus yagouaroundi), also called eyra cat, is a small-sized wildcat native to Centrall and South America. In 2002, the IUCN classified the jaguarundi as ‘Least Concern', although they considered it likely that no conservation units beyond the megareserves of

the Amazon basin could sustain long-term viable populations. It is probably extinct in Texas. Its presence in Uruguay is uncertain

JAGUARUNDI

The Margay is a spotted cat native to the Americas. Named after Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, it is a solitary and nocturnal animal

that prefers remote sections of the rainforest.

MARGAY

The kodkod, also called guiña, is the smallest cat in the Americas and also has the smallest distribution, being found primarily in central and southern Chile and

marginally in adjoining areas of Argentina

KODKOD

The York Chocolate Cat is a new American breed of show cat, with a long, fluffy coat and a

plumed tail. 

YORK CHOCOLATE CAT

The breed is rare even in its native Russia. A translated breed standard for this and other native breeds was published in the mid 1990s, but

nothing has been heard since that time and its breed status is unclear. 

USSURI

The Turkish Van is a rare, naturally occurring breed of cat from the Lake Van region of present-day Turkey. For Turkish Vans, the word van refers to their color pattern, where the color is restricted to the head and the tail,

and the rest of the cat is white.

TURKISH VAN CAT

Like all domestic cats, Turkish Angoras descended from the African wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica). The mountainous regions of Eastern Anatolia isolated cats brought by traders from Egypt 

TURKISH ANGORA

The Toyger is a breed of cat, the result of breeding domestic shorthaired tabbies (beginning in the 1980s) to make them resemble the 'toy tiger' as its striped coat is reminiscent of

the tiger's.

TOYGER

describes a coat coloring found almost exclusively in female cats. Also called Torties for short, they combine two colors other than white, either closely mixed or in large

patchesTORTOISE SHELL

Tonkinese cats are a recent cross between the Siamese and Burmese cat breeds, although some assert that Tonkinese-like cats have existed since at least the early 1800s, and the founding cat of the Burmese breed was probably a mink hybrid-colored cat named

"Wong Mau.

TONKINESE CAT

also known as the little spotted cat, tigrillo, or tiger cat, is a small spotted felid found in the tropical rainforest of Central andSouth America

TIGER CAT

The Stone Cougar is a jungle cat hybrid developed by Mandal Exotic Cats to resemble the American cougar. In addition to the cougar-like color, the body is thick and low to the ground, the tail is thick and the ears are

small.

STONE COUGAR

 

Is a more recently developed natural breed of field hybrid domestic cats, recognized by two major cat pedigree registration office as a formal cat breed.

SOKOKE DALILI

is a rare breed of cat originating in the United States of America in the 1960s. Snowshoes were first produced in Phialdelphia when a Siamese breeder's cat gave birth to three

kittens with white feet.

SNOWSHOE CAT

Smoke cats will look solid coloured until they move, when the white undercoat becomes apparent. It is mostly found in pedigreed cats (especially longhair breeds) but also present in some

domestic longhaired cats.

 

SMOKE CAT

The Skookum was developed from crosses between Munckins and LaPerms with the aim of creating a short legged cat with a curly coat.

SKOOKUM CAT

While Siberians are a fairly recent introduction to the US(1990) and thus relatively rare, though popular, the breed can be seen in Russian paintings and writings hundreds of years old.

SIBERIAN CAT

The original home of the Singapura is the island of Singapore, with the breed taking its name from the local Malay name for the island — meaning 'Lion City'.

SINGAPURA CAT

is a breed of domestic cat, first developed by crossing a Bengal (domestic and wild hybrid) and an . Oriental Shorthair

SERENGETIMAL CAT

SILKERK REX CAT

The Selkirk Rex originated in Montana, America in 1987, with a litter born to a rescued cat. 

SCOTTISH FOLD

The original Scottish Fold was a long-haired white-haired barn cat named Susie, who was found at a farm near Coupar Angus in Perthshire, Scotland in 1961. Susie's ears had an unusual fold in their middle,

is a domestic hybrid cat breed. It is a cross between a several and a domestic cat.

SAVANAH CAT