The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive source of...

Climate change affects every species on earth including the big cats, mainly the tiger and the snow leopard (SLT The Threats, 2020; WWF...

The jacobson’s organ, or vomeronasal organ, is an organ of chemoreception, found in amphibians, reptiles and mammals (Zug, 2021). All...

Six of the seven big cats have white eyespots, or ocelli, on the back of their ears (Nickell, 2017). The one big cat that does not have...

Felines are the most specialized living carnivores (Kitchener, 1991). Most felines stalk their prey, while cheetahs chase their prey at...

The spotted big cats - leopards, jaguars, and cheetahs - have spots that help them blend into their environment. Leopards have spotted...

Did you know that tigers and your domestic house cat are related? Tigers and domestic house cats share 96% of their genes, or in simple...

Like many species, big cats have fur and coat patterns that blend into their habitat providing them with the perfect camouflage...

Jaguars sometimes eat snakes, not something everyone wants to hear on World Snake Day. But, do these large snakes ever eat big cats? One...

Big cats can have melanistic or black coloration and they can also have leucism or lack of pigmentation causing a white coloration...

The term “black panther” is really a melanistic jaguar or leopard. The melanistic coloration, or black variant, is an increased amount of...

The big cats are found on five continents- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America- and in eighty-nine countries (IUCN...

Happy Ocelot Conservation Day! March 8th is Ocelot Conservation Day, where we can celebrate these stripped and spotted cats! The ocelot,...

There has been a lot happening with jaguars in the southwest United States. The jaguar is the largest cat in the western hemisphere and...

Happy World Geoffroy's Cat Day! Today is the first annual day celebrating the Geoffroy cat. The Geoffroy cat, or Leopardus geoffroyi,...

Have you ever wondered what kind of big cat you are most like? Well now you can find out in a short eight question quiz. Take Panthera’s...

Happy Halloween! Let’s celebrate black cats in honor of this spooky holiday. Jaguars and leopards are both big cats that have the...

The presence of zoos is a debatable topic for some. Are zoos good or are they bad? For most people a zoo is the only place where they...

Happy National Cat Day! Today is the day to celebrate all cats. Beverly and Dereck Joubert have a special place in their hearts for big...

An apex predator is considered to be on the top of the food chain and be the alpha predator, which all the big bodied cats are. Although...