There are only 5 true big cats – the lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, and jaguar. Cheetahs and cougars are in fact more closely related to domestic cats. Lions can take down the biggest prey ...

At 59kg on average, leopards are the smallest of the big cats within the genus Panthera (which includes lions, tigers and jaguars), but they are also the most adaptable. They use the full terrain ...

Chilling footage shows a suspected ‘big cat’ watching walkers after being spotted at a remote British beauty spot. The large animal, which onlookers believed was ‘twice the size’ of a domesticated ...

Domesticated housecats are declawed to prevent them from clawing furniture or people, whereas big cats, such as lions and tigers that are kept in captivity are declawed (usually as kittens ...

Findings by Professor Robin Allaby, a biologist at the University of Warwick, suggest big cat DNA has been identified on a sheep carcass in Cumbria. For years there have been a handful of ...

Conservationists estimate as many as 7,000 tigers are living in the US either in zoos or privately owned A bill to restrict the private ownership of big cats like lions and tigers in the US has ...