20 Fierce Facts About The Many Species of Wild Cats Found Worldwide

The Amazonian Margay wildcat has the uncanny ability to mimic the distress call of a baby monkey to lure adult monkeys to its doom.

The black panther is not a species but a melanistic (opposite to albinistic) jaguar or leopard.

A jaguar’s primary killing canine teeth have nerves that help find the perfect point to clamp down to maximize killing effectiveness.

The cougar, mountain lion, puma, panther, and catamount are all actually the same cat, the Puma concolor.

Cheetah's average stride when it is running at full speed is around 22 feet in length.

Asiatic lions still inhabit India's Gujarat state, making them the only lions to naturally live outside of Africa.

A tiger's tongue is so course, it can lick flesh down to the bone.

Sometimes female lions can develop manes. Such masculine females likely occur when the embryo is disrupted, either at conception or while in the womb.

If the last of Iberian lynx population died out, it would be the first feline species to become extinct since prehistoric times.

The Pallas cat looks super-expressive because its face is short and its pupils are round like ours.