Feline Fun Fact Friday - IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive source of...
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Tabby Reed
Sep 3, 20212 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Big Cats and Climate Change
Climate change affects every species on earth including the big cats, mainly the tiger and the snow leopard (SLT The Threats, 2020; WWF...
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Tabby Reed
Aug 27, 20211 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Jacobson's Organ
The jacobson’s organ, or vomeronasal organ, is an organ of chemoreception, found in amphibians, reptiles and mammals (Zug, 2021). All...
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Tabby Reed
Aug 20, 20211 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Ocelli, False Eyes
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...
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Tabby Reed
Aug 13, 20213 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Big Cats and Their Prey
Felines are the most specialized living carnivores (Kitchener, 1991). Most felines stalk their prey, while cheetahs chase their prey at...
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Tabby Reed
Aug 6, 20212 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - The Spotted Cats
The spotted big cats - leopards, jaguars, and cheetahs - have spots that help them blend into their environment. Leopards have spotted...
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Tabby Reed
Jul 30, 20211 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Tigers and Domestic Cats
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...
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Tabby Reed
Jul 23, 20212 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Camouflage
Like many species, big cats have fur and coat patterns that blend into their habitat providing them with the perfect camouflage...
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Tabby Reed
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Big Cats vs Big Snakes
Jaguars sometimes eat snakes, not something everyone wants to hear on World Snake Day. But, do these large snakes ever eat big cats? One...
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Tabby Reed
Jul 9, 20213 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Leucism
Big cats can have melanistic or black coloration and they can also have leucism or lack of pigmentation causing a white coloration...
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Tabby Reed
Jul 1, 20211 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Black Panthers
The term “black panther” is really a melanistic jaguar or leopard. The melanistic coloration, or black variant, is an increased amount of...
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Tabby Reed
Jun 25, 20213 min read
Feline Fun Fact Friday - Where are the big cats found?
The big cats are found on five continents- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America- and in eighty-nine countries (IUCN...
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Tabby Reed
Nov 1, 20201 min read
What Cat are You?
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...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 31, 20203 min read
Melanistic Cats- Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween! Let’s celebrate black cats in honor of this spooky holiday. Jaguars and leopards are both big cats that have the...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 30, 20205 min read
Roles Zoos Play
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...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 29, 20201 min read
National Cat Day!
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...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 28, 20202 min read
Big Cats are Apex Predators
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...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 27, 20205 min read
Big Cat Threats and Solutions
The main threats facing the big cats are all anthropogenic, or human caused, and fall under the categories of poaching or trophy hunting,...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 26, 20202 min read
Family Cat Tree
The seven large bodied cats are in the Felidae family (Turner, 1997). They are composed of three genuses, Panthera, Puma, and Acinonyx....
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