Hello everyone, it is Tuesday, and I found another book about spiders, snakes, sharks, big cats and dinosaurs and I will kick it off with a bit about big cats.
As I am sure everyone knows domestic cats and related to the big cats as they are all part of the Felidae family.
Most cats have a similar skeleton, with rounded heads and a body structure that allows them to move swiftly and silently. Their backbone is very different to a human, we have rigid spine, but a cat has a flexible one which allows them to curl into a ball.
Cats are hunters who love meat, domestic cats hunt for small creatures like mice while the bigger cats stalk their prey in the wild, unless they are in a zoo.
Big cats are found all over the world except for Antarctica and Australia. Sadly, some of these big cats are facing extinction, such as the Bornean Bay Cat, The Clouded Leopard, African Lion, Tiger to name a few.
Big cats have large eyes, excellent hearing, sharp teeth and strong limbs with sharp claws. These characterises are what make them good hunters.
They also have long tails in their tails are 10 per cent of their bones and their tail is used to maintain balance. Cats have 230 bones humans have 206.
They have a life span of anywhere between 8yrs and 20yrs.
Jo-AnneRamplings 
Dearest Jo-Anne,
Would love to see them but the large ones are a bit too big for playing with them… But they sure are a regal animal and can be so elegant in their movements!
Our kitties are now 17 years and 3 months + 8 days and that is quite a senior age.
In the wild it will be tough to grow old as they also can get almost all human diseases and without any shots or veterinarian care, how do they manage?!
At least all of our kitties never have been fat, well, except Speckie girl as she LOVED to eat. She volunteered after each meal to do the dishes—licking her adoptive siblings’ bowl clean!
Tiggy–Tiger is a very picky eater, always has been… Try to entice her to eat more but it is tough. Yet she too made it this far.
Big hugs,
Mariette
Big cats are wonderful looking creatures that you don’t want to get up close and personal with, well I don’t
AMEN!