Felid – The Big Cats of India – Roaring Cats

Felidae is the biological family of cats and member of this family is called Felid. Big Cats Tiger, Lion, Leopard and jaguar are define this family. The only cats able to roar are come under big cats family.These “Roaring Cats” are also sometimes called as “Great Cats“.

Big cats also includes cheetah, snow leopard, and cougar. Cheetah reintroduction plan running by the Indian government, to bring the cheetah back to India. Check out the Stunning photos of Tiger.

Great Indian Lion

The habitat of the Asiatic lion is very small they survives today only in the Gir National park of Gujarat and only about 411 lions are left. The Palpur-Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary was selected to relocated the lions form Gir National Parks.

The Gujarat state has been resisting the relocation, since it would make the Gir Sanctuary lose its status as the only home for big cats in India. Indian lions are highly social animals, living in small units called prides with just two or three females, these prides are smaller than Africans.

Royal Bengal Tiger

The Bengal Tiger is  the largest one from the four “Roaring Cats of India”.The Bengal tiger is the second largest subspecies after the Siberian tiger, recent studies have shown that Bengal Tigers are, on average, larger than the Siberian Tigers.

India is the home for the world’s largest population of tigers.In the Big Cats dairy of India there are only 2699 Royal Bengal Tigers left as per record.Conservation efforts called “Project Tiger” is on his way to Save Bengal Tigers. Bandhavgarh national park has been an excellent habitat of tiger and is known for the highest density of tigers in the world.

White Tiger

White tigers have been known to inhabit many parts of East Asia and in India. Hundreds of white tigers are in captivity in India, and good news is that their numbers are on the increase. The nandan kanan national park is one of the park where White Tigers are found in India.

Indian Leopard

Compared to other members of the Felid family, the leopard has relatively short legs and a long body with a large skull. The leopard is known for its ability in climbing, and it has been observed resting on tree branches during the day.

In India the leopard preys on deer such as chitals and muntjacs. Indian leopards are distributed all over in India. Jim Corbett National Park is the best place for Indian leopards, A variation of leopard is black leopard also known as black panther in India.

 Black Panther – Sanctuaries to Spot Black Panther in India

A black panther is a large black cat, Black leopards or black panther are found at most densely forested areas of Assam and Nepal, from Travancore and other parts of southern India. Number of Black panther’s in India are very less, can be appear some time in rural area of India.

Snow Leopard –Parks in India to Spot Snow Leopard

Snow leopard also know as  Ounce in India.  Snow leopard very less studied member of “Great Cats of India” and as per the record Snow leopard found in Himalayan regions of North India. Hemis National Park  Ladakh is one of the conservation park for snow leopards in India. Photo Credit: Mike Centioli

Clouded Leopard

The another felid of Himalaya is “The clouded leopard” found from the Himalayan foothills through mainland northeast India to neighbour countries. The powerful predator of hills has been classified as vulnerable with suspected to be fewer than 10,000.

Follow the Link to Know 8 Species of Indian Wild Cats

There are 8 species of wild cats found in India, the medium-sized wild cat found in Southeastern Asia are golden cat,desert cat,spotted cat and fishing cat. These feline species are very close to fall in the category of Vulnerable due to fastest regional deforestation, hunting pressure and habitat loss.