Cheetah

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Cheetah | The genus name, Acinonyx, means "no-move-claw" in Greek, while the species name, jubatus, means "moon" in Latin, a reference to the moons in cheetah cubs. The cheetah has unusually low genetic variability. Skin grafts between unrelated cheetahs illustrate the first place, that there is no rejection of the donor skin The cheetah has probably developed in Africa during the Miocene (26000000 died 7.5 million years old), before migrating to Asia. The extinct genus Miracinonyx was extremely cheetah-like, but recent DNA research has shown that Miracinonyx inexpectatus, Miracinonyx studeri and Miracinonyx trumani (early to late Pleistocene), North America and in the "North American cheetah" are not found the true cheetahs, instead of close relatives of the Cougar. The cheetah chest is deep and its waist is narrow. The coarse, short fur of the cheetah is tan with round black spots measuring 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.2 in), for which they some camouflage while hunting.

The cheetah has a small head with high-lying eyes. The adult cheetah weighs 21 to 72 kg (46 to 160 pounds). Cheetahs are 66-94 inches (26 to 37 in) tall at the shoulder. The males are usually slightly larger than females and have slightly bigger heads, but there is no great variation in cheetah sizes and it is difficult to distinguish between men and women on looks alone. Compared to a similarly sized leopard, the cheetah is generally shorter body, but is longer and longer tail (about 90 cm on average it (35 cm) tall) and so it seems more streamlined.

Some cheetahs have a rare fur pattern mutation of larger, blotchy, merged spots. Known as "King Cheetah" which they were once considered a subspecies forms, but are in fact the African cheetah, its unusual coat pattern is the result of a single recessive gene. The "king cheetah" is seen only in the wild a few times, but it has been bred in captivity. The cheetah paws have semi-retractable claws (known only in three other cat species, the fishing cat, the cat and the Iriomote cat Flathead) and provides extra grip in high speed chases. Dewclaw itself is much shorter and straighter than other cats. Unlike true big cats in the subfamily Pantherinae, the cheetah can purr as inhaled, can not yell. The cheetah is still considered by some to be the smallest of the big cats.

The thinner body frame of the cheetah is also very different from that of the leopard. he cheetah is an endangered species. Once widely hunted for its fur, the cheetah now suffers more from the loss of habitat and prey both. There are more geographically isolated populations of cheetahs, all of which are found in Africa or Southwest Asia. It is possible, but doubtful, that some cheetahs remain in India. The cheetah lives in areas with large land where prey is abundant. The cheetah in an open biotope, such as semi-desert, prairie, and thick brush life, but it's in a variety of habitats available. A study of female cheetahs in the Serengeti were sexually promiscuous and often have several boys of many men.

Unlike some other cats, the cheetah is born with its characteristic spots. This gives them a mane or Mohawk-type appearance, this fur is shed as the cheetah grows older. There is speculation that this mane gives a cheetah cub the appearance of the honey badger (rattle), deter potential aggressors. The cheetah has a unique, well-structured social order. Since cheetahs rely on their speed to get their meals, an injury that is slow it could be life threatening. A cheetah has a 50% chance of losing his prey to other predators. Cheetahs avoid competition by hunting at different times of day and by eating immediately after death.

As a result of the reduction of habitat in Africa, cheetahs have in recent years faced increasing pressure from other native African predators as available range decreases The cheetah is a very high mortality during the first weeks of his life, up to 90% of young cheetahs are during this time by lions, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, or even killed by eagles. Young cheetahs often hide in thick brush for safety. Mother cheetahs defend their young and are sometimes successful in driving predators away from their young. Coalitions of male cheetahs can also chase away other predators, depending on the coalition and the size and number of predators. Because of its speed, a healthy adult cheetah has few enemies.

Cheetah fur was formerly regarded as a status symbol. Today, cheetahs have a growing economic importance for ecotourism and they are also found in zoos. Cheetahs are far less aggressive than other big cats, and can be tamed, so cubs are sometimes sold illegally as pets. Cheetahs were formerly, and sometimes still hunted because many farmers believe that they eat livestock. If the species has been threatened numerous campaigns were launched to try to educate the farmers and to promote the cheetah. Recent research has shown that cheetahs will not attack and eat animals if they can avoid doing, if they prefer their wild prey.

Cheetah cubs have a high mortality due to predation by factors other predators such as lions and hyenas, and possibly genetic. It has been suggested that the low genetic diversity of cheetahs a cause of poor sperm quality, birth defects, cramped teeth, curled tail and limb is bent. Cheetahs are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list of endangered species (subspecies in Africa threatened, Asiatic subspecies in critical condition) and the U.S. Endangered Species Act include: threatened species - Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in endangered species). Approximately 12 400 cheetahs remain in the wild in 25 African countries, Namibia has the most, with about 2,500. Another 50 to 60 of endangered Asiatic cheetahs are believed to remain in Iran.

Founded in 1990 in Namibia, the Cheetah Conservation Fund's mission in the world source responsible for the protection of cheetahs and secure the future of our planet. The South African Cheetah Conservation Foundation has close relations and facilitate the training and the exchange of program successes in other countries where cheetahs live, including Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Iran and Algeria.

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Lynx

  

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Lynx | Lynx have short tails and tufts of black hair characteristics on the tips of their ears. All species of lynx also white fur on his chest, belly and inner legs, which are extensions of the chest and belly fur. Smaller species are lynx and lynx in Canada, while the largest is the Eurasian lynx, with considerable variation within species. Lynx are usually solitary, although a small group of lynx may travel and hunt together occasionally. The gestation period of lynx is about 70 days. Lynx will create their dens in crevices or under ledges. They also feed on a wide range of animals, deer, reindeer, deer, small deer, chamois and, for smaller, more common prey: rabbits, fish, foxes, sheep, squirrels, mice, turkeys and other birds, and goats. The Eurasian lynx is between the central and northern Europe across Asia to India. 

A resettlement project, started in 1973, was successfully reintroduced lynx in the Slovenian Alps and the Croatian region of Gorski Kotar and Velebit, including Croatia Plitvice Lakes National Park and National Park Risnjak. In both countries, the lynx is listed as an endangered species and protected by law. Various resettlement projects undertaken in 1970 lynx have been successful in different regions of Switzerland. Lynx are more common in northern Europe, especially Sweden, Estonia, Finland, and parts of northern Russia. The lynx population in Finland was 1900-2100 individuals in 2008, and the numbers have increased every year since 1992. The lynx population in Finland is currently estimated at greater than ever. 

The critically endangered Iberian Lynx lives in southern Spain and previously in the eastern part of Portugal. A lynx is expected to play outside binnder Silves in the Algarve in southern Portugal.
The lynx hunting is illegal in many countries.

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Leopard

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Leopard | Leopards are agile and stealthy predator. The muscles attached to scapula are exceptionally strong, which increase their ability to climb trees. Males are about 30% larger than females, weighing 30-91 kg (66-200 lbs), compared to 23 to 60 kg (51 to 130 pounds) for females. Big men up to 91 kg (£ 200) have been documented in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, however, men of the coastal mountains of South Africa average 31 kg (68 pounds) and females of the edge of the desert in Somalia average of 23 to 27 kg (51 to 60 pounds). The smaller subspecies of leopard is usually the Arabian leopard (P. p. Nimr), the deserts of the Middle East, with the adult females of the race weighs only 17 kg (37 pounds). Other subspecies of large, in which males weigh up to 91 kg (200 £), is the Sri Lankan leopard (P. p. Kotiya) and the Anatolian leopard (P. p. Tulliana). These tend to be more leopards are found in areas that lack tigers and lions, thereby placing the leopard on top of the food chain without restriction of competition of large prey size. The largest leopards recorded weighed 96.5 kg (213 lb). 

The body of the leopard is relatively long, and their legs are short. Leopards show a great diversity of color patterns displayed and the rosette. The rosettes are circular in East Africa, but tend to be more square in southern Africa and higher in Asian populations. Leopards can sometimes be confused with two other big cats paintings, the cheetah, which can coexist with in Africa, and the jaguar, a Neotropical species that naturally coexist. However, the patterns of dots in each are different: the cheetah has simple black spots, evenly distributed, the jaguar has small spots inside the rosettes polygonal, while the leopard is usually round, rosettes smaller than the jaguar. The jaguar is more like building a leopard, but is generally larger and looks more muscular and bulky. In ancient times, a leopard was believed to be a hybrid of a lion and a panther, which is reflected in its name, which is composed of a greek λέων leon (lion) and brown πάρδος (male panther). The Greek word is related to Sanskrit पृदाकु pṛdāku (snake, tiger, panther), and probably derives from a Mediterranean language, like the Egyptian.

Black Panther refers to leopards with melanic genes, which are not infrequent in forest habitats. The generic component of its modern scientific name, Panthera pardus, derives from the Latin via Greek πάνθηρ (Panther). In sub-Saharan Africa, the species is still numerous and even thriving in marginal environments, where other large cats disappeared. But the people of North Africa may be extinct The data on its distribution in Asia are not consistent-populations of the south-west and central Asia are small and fragmented, in North-East, are in grave danger, but the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China, leopards are still relatively abundant. their number is greater than that of other species Panthera all face conservation concerns more acute. Leopards live mainly in grasslands, woodlands and riverine forests. They are usually associated with savanna and rainforest, but leopards are extremely adaptable: the Russian Far East, inhabiting the temperate forests where winter temperatures reach a minimum of -25 ° C (-13 ° F). 

The leopards are elusive, solitary and largely nocturnal. Level of activity varies depending on the type of habitat and prey that hunt. Radio tracking and analysis of feces 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 to climb and have been observed resting on the branches of the trees during the day, dragging their kills the trees and hang them there, and head down trees. Depending on the region, leopards may mate all year round. Young skin tends to be larger and thicker than that of adults. Leopards have been reported to reach 21 years in captivity.

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Tiger

  

The Biggest Animals Kingdom | Tiger | The ancient remains of the tiger, like a cat, called Panthera palaeosinensis were found in China and Java. The earliest fossils of true tigers are known from Java, and between 1.6 and 1.8 million years. Subspecies called Trinil tiger (Panthera tigris trinilensis) lived about 1.2 million years ago and is known from fossils found at Trinil in Java. Tigers first reached India and northern Asia during the Pleistocene, reaching eastern Beringia (but not the Americas), Japan and Sakhalin. Fossils Japan show that local tigers were as subspecies island survivors, lower than the forms of the continent. Before the Holocene, tigers lived on the island of Borneo and the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Tigers have a muscular body, with a particularly powerful forelimbs and a large head. Model band is also in the skin of a tiger. If Tiger were shaved, its distinctive camouflage pattern can be saved.

Tiger is the most variable in size all the big cats, even more than the leopard, and more than lions. Bengal, Caspian Sea and Amur tiger subspecies are among the largest living cats, and are one of the largest cat that ever existed. An adult male tiger from northern India or Siberia, than the average male lion about 45 kg (99 pounds), women vary in length from 200 to 275 cm (79 to 108), weighing 65 167 kg (140,370 pounds), with a maximum length skulls 268-318 mm (10.6 to 12.5 cm). Large male Siberian tiger can reach a total length of 3.5 m (11.5 ft) "to curves", 3.3 m (10.8 ft) "between pegs" and weighing 306 kg (670 pounds). This is significantly larger than the size of the smallest of life reached the subspecies of tiger, Sumatran tigers, which reach a weight of 75 to 140 kg (170,310 pounds). The total length of the tail of the tiger is from 0.6 to 1.1 m (2.0 to 3.6 feet). In the shoulder, the Tigers could stand differently from 0.7 to 1.22 m (2.3 to 4.0 feet).

Tigress less than men in each subspecies, although the size difference between male and female tigers tends to be more pronounced in larger tiger subspecies, with males weighing up to 1.7 times more than women. In addition, male tigers have foot pads front wider than females. Biologists use this difference to determine the sex, based on a few tracks of a tiger. The skull is very similar to a tiger a lion, although the front area, as a rule, non-depressed or flat with a region slightly longer post-orbital. Only the large island inhabited by tigers today, Sumatra. Tigers have been eradicated on the island of Bali in 1940, around the Caspian Sea in 1970, and the island of Java in 1980.

Habitat loss and the constant killing of tigers and tiger prey precipitated these extirpations, a process that continues to leave forests devoid of tigers and other large mammals in South and Southeast Asia.  Fossils show that the Tigers were presented at the Borneo and Palawan in the Philippines in the late Pleistocene and Holocene. The tiger habitat is generally include adequate coverage, proximity to water, and abundance of prey. Bengal tigers live in many types of forests, including wet green, semi-evergreen of Assam and West Bengal, the mangrove forests in the delta of the Ganges, deciduous forest and thorn forests of Nepal Western Ghats. In the wild, tigers mostly feed on animals large and medium sized businesses. Sambar, gaur, chital, barasingha, wild boar, nilgai, and both the domestic buffalo and buffalo, favored victim of a tiger in India.

In Siberia, the main types are the victims of the Manchurian deer, wild boar, spotted deer, elk, deer and musk deer. In Sumatra, sambar, muntjac, wild boar, and Malayan tapir hunt. In between the first Caspian tiger, prey included Saiga antelope, camels, Caucasian bison, yak and wild horses. Adult elephants are too big to be a common prey, but conflicts between tigers and elephants also occasionally occur. The case where a tiger killed an adult Indian rhino is not observed. Tigers also sometimes attack pets such as dogs, cows, horses and donkeys. 

Tigers old or injured and are unable to capture their natural prey have become cannibals, this pattern is repeated many times throughout India. Exceptional case is that the Sundarbans, where healthy tigers prey upon fishermen and farmers in search of forest products, people, forming a small part of the diet of the tiger. Tiger will have some vegetation in dietary fiber, fruit of the tree slowly while playing a game Tigers are thought to be nocturnal predators hunt at night. When hunting large prey, tigers prefer to bite the throat and use their forepaws to hold the prey, bringing it to the ground. Tiger is still locked around his neck until the victim dies of asphyxiation. With this method, water buffalo and gaurs weighing more than a tonne have been killed by tigers more weighing approximately one-sixth.

With small prey, the tiger bites the nape, often breaking the spinal cord enters the trachea, or splitting the jugular vein or carotid artery. Litter usually consists of 3-4 cubs of about 1 kg (2.2 pounds) each, which are born blind and helpless.  Females reach sexual maturity at 3-4 years, while males reach sexual maturity in 4-5 years. During his lifetime, a woman will give birth to an equal number of tiger cubs males and females. Tigers reproduce well in captivity, captive, and the population in the United States can compete with wild populations of the world.

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