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  2. Panthera - Wikipedia

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    Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger, as well as a number of extinct species, including the cave lion and American lion.

  3. Pantherinae - Wikipedia

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    Panthera shawi was a lion-like cat in South Africa that possibly lived in the early Pleistocene. [18] Panthera balamoides lived in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico during the Pleistocene. [19] Some researchers consider this species to be a bear instead. [10] [20] [21] An additional fossil genus Leontoceryx was described in 1938. [22]

  4. Big cat - Wikipedia

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    The ancestor of the lion, leopard, and jaguar split from other big cats from 4.3–3.8 Ma. Between 3.6 and 2.5 Ma, the jaguar diverged from the ancestor of lions and leopards. Lions and leopards split from one another approximately 2 Ma. [9] The earliest big cat fossil, Panthera blytheae, dating to 4.1−5.95 MA, was discovered in southwest ...

  5. How will dogs and cats, cows and bats, lions and Reeves's ...

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    Dogs are probably more likely to exhibit unusual or anxious behaviors since cats are more nocturnal and sleep much of the day, anyway, Collins said. In fact, cats could actually get a little more ...

  6. List of felids - Wikipedia

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    Blue is the range of Felinae (excluding the domestic cat), green is the range of Pantherinae. Felidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is called a felid. [1] [2] The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to domestic cats.

  7. Digitigrade - Wikipedia

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    There are structural differences between the limb anatomy of plantigrades, unguligrades, and digitigrades. Digitigrade and unguligrade animals have relatively long carpals and tarsals, and the bones which correspond to the human ankle are thus set much higher in the limb than in a human. In a digitigrade animal, this effectively lengthens the ...

  8. Zoo Lions Playing With Cardboard Boxes Just Like House Cats ...

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    Now play, "If it fits, I sits."

  9. Polyandry in animals - Wikipedia

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    Polygyny is where one male mates with several females in a breeding season (e.g., lions, deer, some primates, and many systems where there is an alpha male). [1] A common example of polyandrous mating can be found in the field cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) of the invertebrate order Orthoptera (containing crickets, grasshoppers, and groundhoppers).