Below you will find some links to some possibly unknown Wildcat Facts
# A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
# Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
# The Chinese, during the reign of Kublai Khan, used lions on hunting expeditions. They trained the big cats to pursue and drag down massive animals - from wild bulls to bears - and to stay with the kill until the hunter arrived.
# The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
# A cheetah can reach a top speed approaching 70 mph.
# Lions are the only truly social cat species, and usually every female in a pride, ranging from 5 to 30 individuals, is closely related.
# There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.
# Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
# Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
# There is a species of cat smaller than the average housecat. It is native to Africa and it is the Black-footed cat (Felis nigripes). Its top weight is 5.5 pounds.
# The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
# The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
# Some lions can mate over 50 times a day.
# The female lion is a much more efficient hunter than the male.
# An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
# The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest stripes.
# Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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This page last updated 6/2/2004