Hey guys it's Kerry I love all the big cats elephants and
giraffe Jaguar they are fearsome predators and will
hunt anything from frogs fish and reptiles to livestock cows and deer
Jaguars are solitary animals males defend their range and only come
together with females to mate breeding occurs throughout the year and
females have up to four cubs which disperse after two years
Jaguars are competent climbers and will scale trees they often use their vantage
points amongst the branches to pounce on unsuspecting prey below
the Jaguar can survive in many different habitats they are normally found near
water and prefer swamp land or tropical rainforest they also survive in forrest
grassland and scrub
Leopards and jaguars look very similar the leopards have similar rosettes to the
Jaguar but the Jaguars rosettes have spots inside them whereas the leopards
don't
Florida panther a genetic study of cougar mitochondrial
DNA showed that it is a distinct subspecies
Puma or cougar the pumas of Patagonia are the top predators in this South American region
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giraffe they are probably the biggest
pollinators in the world thanks to their great height as they wander around
feeding from the tops of trees they inadvertently transfer genetic material
on their muzzles from the flowers of one tree took those of another
Elephant they are well known for living in matriarchal or female led social groups
even though they're well respected and revered by people throughout their
ranges in Africa and South Asia they are also feared because they can become
aggressive and dangerous elephants are most dangerous during musth
this is when the males experience increases in testosterone levels of a
factor of 60 or more the changes prepare them for competing
for females and make them much more aggressive
This condition is more pronounced in Asian elephants
elephants in musth carry their heads and ears higher than normal and make a
characteristic rumbling sound a bull elephant in musth can be extremely
dangerous to anything that gets in its way
cheetah they are very light on their feet they're rather like a mammalian
racing car the cheetah has stretched the standard feline body plan to the limit
its long tail is half of the head and body length it acts like a
counterbalance adding high speed maneuvering
the exceptionally long vertebral column has amazing flexibility as it flexes and
straightens this boosts the length of the stride
a high forehead and modified jaws gives a vice like grip to throttle prey
short sharp canines are designed for bolting down meat not severing the
spinal cord as in Big Cats
black panther is a general term for any melanistic big cat which will generally
be a black leather black jaguar in Jaguars the melanistic gene is dominant
so Black jaguars aren't too unusual although they are generally more difficult to see
and may spend more time in dark rain Forrests where they are better camouflaged than
hunting by the water
the taxonomic status of captive black leopards and the extent of hybridization
between different subspecies is uncertain
therefore coordinated breeding programs for black leopards do not exist in
European and North American zoos
black leopards occupy space needed for breeding of endangered leopards subspecies
and are not kept within the North American species survival plan
Leopard it occurs in a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa in small parts of
Western and Central Asia on the Indian subcontinent to Southeast and East Asia
this is the Amur leopard
leopard populations are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation and are
declining in large parts of the global range you are looking at an African
leopard
leopard species alive today are the African leopard Indian leopard Javan
tiger if you are wondering about the bright
orange fur with black stripes their main prey is ungulates now these cannot detect
the range of colors that the primates can to an animal with comparatively poor
vision the cat's bold contrasting colors are much harder to pick out in the long
grass tigers are semi solitary hunters and depend on their cryptic appearance
to ambush prey
a tiger's favorite way of taking down its prey is to lunge at the animal's
neck and hold on tight with its powerful jaws
The prey will normally die from suffocation but some might bleed out first if the
Tiger's canines sever and artery tigers have white spots surrounded by
black fur on the back of their ears it's been suggested that they act as
false eyes to warn off their presence or discourage other species from attacking
them from behind other theories suggest it helps tiger cubs follow their mother
through tall grass
tigers have night visions that is six times better than that of humans which
helps them hunt successfully in the dark as tiger will mainly hunt pigs and deer
but is capable of taking prey larger than itself
Surviing tiger subspecies are the Siberians South China Sumatran indo-chinese Malayan and
Bengal tiger
White Bengal tiger is a large and powerful animal
it is not an albino as they still carry some form of pigment that creates their
fur color as some individuals are known to retain an orange tinge to their white
colored fur they have blue eyes rather than the
green or yellowed coloured eyes of normal Bengal tigers
white lion they have a rare recessive trait that causes their white skin
coloration they are not albinos white lions have blue or gold eyes black
features on their nose black wings around their eyes and dark
patches behind their ears male white lions may have white blonde
or pale hair in their manes and on the ends of their tails
white lions reach sexual maturity between the ages of three and four most
white lions are bred and born in captivity with reproduction during the
courtship stage the male follows the female and often rests with her he may
lick her neck back or genital area the male smells the females urine or
vulva to assess receptivity female initiates opulation by lordosis a
reflexive behavior in felids mating occurs over several hours or over
the course of a night copulations are brief but frequent
lasting a minute or less and may occur as often as three times per hour
like other cats the male lion's penis has spines that point backwards during
withdrawal of the penis the spines rakethe walls of the female's vagina
to stimulate ovulation male cubs are expelled from the pride at
about three years of age and become nomads until they are old enough to try
and take over another pride usually after the age of five many adult
males remain nomads for life mating opportunities for nomad males are
rare and competition between male lions to defend a pride's territory and mate
with the pride's females is fierce the genus Panthera includes leopards
jaguars and tigers as well as lions
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