Tigers, Lions, & Leopards OH, MY! (Big Cats)

[FelidLover]

I may as well share my humble list:

Domestc/feral cat
Canadian lynx (Lake district wildlife park/Trotters world of animals)
Carpathian lynx (Camperdown wildlife centre)
Puma/cougar/mountain lion/Catamount (zoo de Jurques)
Ocelot (Montpellier zoo)
Fishing cat (Lake district wildlife park/Trotters world of animals)
northern lynx (Zoo de jurques, Lake district wildlife park/Trotters world of animals, Camperdown wildlife centre, Highland wildlife park)
pallas cat (Edinburgh zoo)
scottish wildcat (Edinburgh zoo, Highland wildlife park, Camperdown wildlife centre)
serval (lake district wildlife park/trotters world of animals, zoo de jurques)
Tibetan golden cat (Edinburgh zoo)
Amur leopard(Edinburgh zoo)
Asiatic lion (Chester zoo, Edinburgh zoo)
Jaguar (Wilhelma zoo, Barcelona zoo, Chester zoo, Edinburgh zoo)
Kalahari lion (Basel zoo)
Leopard(no ssp) (zoo de Jurques)
Lion(no ssp) (zoo de juques, zoo de Champrepus, Blair drummond safari park)
North persian leopard (wilhelma zoo, zoo de champrepus)
Siberian tiger (Zoo de jurques, Highland wildlife park, blair drummond safari park)
Snow leopard (wilhelma zoo, Zoo de juques, Basel zoo)
south african cheetah (wilhelma zoo, zoo de jurques, zoo de champrepus, Barcelona zoo, Basel zoo)
Transvaal lion (zoo de jurques)
Sumatran tiger (wilhelma zoo, zoo de champrepus, Barcelona zoo, Edinburgh zoo)
Katanga lion (Barcelona zoo)
Sri lankan leopard (barcelona zoo)

Wouldn't call that humble!!

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Wouldn't call that humble!!

Me neither!

There's quite a few species on that list I wouldn't mind adding to mine.

~Thylo

 

[Cypselurus]

African Lion- Toronto, African Lion Safari, Shanghai, Shanghai Wild Animal Park
Tiger- (Siberian, Sumatran, South China, Malaysian, White Bengal)- Toronto, Toronto, Shanghai, Shanghai Zoo Shanghai Wild Animal Park respectively
Leopard- Shanghai Zoo
Snow Leopard- Toronto
Jaguar- (Generic, black)- Toronto Zoo, Shanghai Zoo
Clouded Leopard- Toronto Zoo
Fishing Cat- Singapore Night Safari
Caracal- Toronto Zoo
Serval- Toronto Zoo
Cheetah- Toronto Zoo, African Lion Safari, Shanghai Zoo
Puma- Toronto Zoo, Shanghai Zoo
Eurasian Lynx- Shanghai Zoo
Canadian Lynx- Toronto Zoo
Domestic Cat- Smeared on the road outside my apartment, sadly..

 

[IanRRobinson]

Right, let's try to impress:

Ocelot
Margay
Oncilla
Geoffroy's Cat
"Pampas" cat - think this was actually Pantanal Cat, at Kilverstone, late 1980s
Wildcat(Scottish-which I don't believe is unique-, European, African, Indian Desert)
Jungle Cat
Sand Cat
Black-footed Cat
Pallas' Cat
Leopard Cat (South Asian form and Amur - could quite believe THAT was a full species)
Fishing Cat
Rusty-spotted Cat
Temminck's (Asian Golden) Cat
Serval
Caracal
Puma
Jaguarundi
Cheetah (including a King at Wuppertal)
Northern Lynx (nominate and Siberian)
Bobcat
Clouded Leopard
Snow Leopard (my all time favourite animal)
Tiger (Malayan, Siberian and Sumatran purebred, plus white, "marmalade" and zoo hybrid)
Lion (Asiatic, "Barbary"- a male at Port Lympne some twenty years ago fitted the notional bill, general zoo and white)
Leopard (Amur, Chinese, Persian, Sri Lankan, Javan, general zoo and black)
Jaguar (black and normal coloured)

I also saw a medium sized rich brown felid at Port Lympne some twenty years ago that I would dearly like to believe was a (African) Golden Cat, but the enclosure had no label, my camera was not with me, and I cannot honestly claim certainty over the sighting.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

"Pampas" cat - think this was actually Pantanal Cat, at Kilverstone, late 1980s

As noted elsewhere, the Kilverstone cat is now known to have been a Colocolo.

Temminck's (Asian Golden) Cat

Do you know which subspecies of Asian Golden Cat you have seen?

I also saw a medium sized rich brown felid at Port Lympne some twenty years ago that I would dearly like to believe was a (African) Golden Cat, but the enclosure had no label, my camera was not with me, and I cannot honestly claim certainty over the sighting.

The timing fits for it to have been an African Golden Cat.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I might just kill myself if GiantEland posts his list!!

~Thylo

 

[Arizona Docent]

Short article on javan leopards in captivity:
Leopards .:. wild-cat.org

 

[Buldeo]

National Geographic has uploaded a video of a rather spectacular jaguar kill in the Pantanal wetlands. A big male (a buck eighty by my estimate) swims across a river, sneaks up on a caiman, and kills* it in one pounce.

http://youtu.be/DBNYwxDZ_pA

I'm guessing that he severed the spinal cord.

Another photographer managed to capture the attack from a different angle. Check ' em out here.

 

[BeardsleyZooFan]

Thanks for sharing that awesome video Buldeo!
Too bad they titled it "Jaguar Attacks Crocodile."

 

[nanoboy]

Thanks for sharing that awesome video Buldeo!
Too bad they titled it "Jaguar Attacks Crocodile."

Whilst the majority of the 20 million viewers probably have no idea of the difference and couldn't care less, I think that Nat Geo should be accurate regardless.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I thought I should probably post this on here: http://www.zoochat.com/65/yet-another-species-small-carnivore-discovered-346356/

Might just change some of your cat species lists a bit!

~Thylo

 

[Arizona Docent]

It has just been announced that the June 2014 annual conference of the Feline Conservation Federation will be held in Phoenix, Arizona (USA). Host facility will be Out Of Africa. After being a member of the FCF for around three years, looks like I will finally get to attend a conference.

 

[Arizona Docent]

I am organizing a wild cat photo trip in Europe for a week in October 2014. If any cat lovers are interested, you can find the information here:
europe tour a

 

[TheMightyOrca]

We're listing the cats we've seen, eh? This list is probably incomplete, but whatever.

Tiger (Malayan, Sumantran, and Amur. I've also seen white tigers, which are apparently Bengal/Siberian mixes?)
African lion
Ocelot
Fishing cat
Caracal
Serval
Black-footed cat
Clouded leopard
Cougar
Jaguar
Leopard

 

[Arizona Docent]

A really good Nat Geo article on leopards.
Learning to Live With Leopards - National Geographic Magazine

 

[Buldeo]

A really good Nat Geo article on leopards.
Learning to Live With Leopards - National Geographic Magazine

I caught that on Mr. Conniff's blog. Good article. He's been keeping tabs on this situation for some time, and you can find more of his work over at Strange Behaviors. In keeping in theme with the thread though, he's posted some really cool big cat videos over the past week or so!

 

[Arizona Docent]

Here is an excellent opinion article on why more zoos need to exhibit the underrepresented small cats: Ex Situ Conservation of Small Wild Cat Species | Huffington Post

 

[Arizona Docent]

A pale tiger has been photographed in the wild in India. This is not a white morph or golden tabby morph, it is just an unusually light orange tiger.
Exceptionally rare 'pale tiger' photographed in the wild

 

[Komodo99]

Being a big fan of big and small wildcats I thought I would post.

Species I have seen
Siberian Tigers(Blackpool Zoo,Knowsley Safari Park)
Sumatran Tigers(Chester,Welsh Mountain)
Snow Leopard(Lakeland Wildlife Oasis,Welsh Mountain,Combe Martin)
African Lion(Blackpool Zoo,Knowsley Safari Park)
Asiatic Lion(Chester)
Jaguar(Chester)
Serval(Chester)
Scottish Wildcat(Used to work with them)
Sudan Cheetah(Chester)

Big Cat species on my bucket list
All species of Panthera Pardus
Clouded Leopard
Mountain Lion
Margay

 

[Dassie rat]

Here is my list from memory
Lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, snow leopard, clouded leopard
Puma, jaguarundi, cheetah
Asiatic and African golden cats
Leopard, fishing and rusty-spotted cats
Wild, sand, black-footed and Pallas's cats
Canada and Eurasian lynxes, bobcat
Serval, caracal
Ocelot, margay, oncilla, Geoffroy's cat, pampas cat