Cats

I like animals so I thought I would write about them on here today. The white tiger is one that I all ways have liked. I think that they are beautiful creatures. I guess the reason they are white is they have a genetic disorder that causes them to loose the orange color but not the dark stripes. White tigers are larger than orange tigers also. They can have a genetic disorder that does cause them to loose the dark stripes. Here are a few pictures of the tigers I mentioned

Also there is the orange tiger, which everyone of us have seen at a zoo, or possibly on a wild safari adventure. They are on average about 600 pounds. Most them having over one hundred stripes.

The lion is a part of the four big cat family. I don't personally think it is as pretty as the tiger, but they do have a quality about them that just makes me feel a sense of respect. Maybe it their power. The Lion weighs about 550 lbs, that weight being the larger males. They claim that lions are a delicate species and have seen a major decline in their population. They typically only live to be about 14 years old, with the oldest known, being about 20. Allot of the male lions only live to 8. Lions do not typically hunt humans, but they have been known to. Like tigers, there are white lions. They use to say it was an old tale passed on, the sight of the white lion, in the 20th century, they were discovered.

Next to the tiger, the leopard is one of my favorite animals. Unlike the tiger and lion, we all know the black coloration of leopards, as the blank panther. They are a very scary cat. Who an run up to 37 miles an hour. Too fast for me. Unlike most big cats, the leopard has a wide variety o diet. It even eats insects. There has been cases that leopards did hunt humans. One in particular, called the leopard of Panar, had supposedly killed over 400 people. They claim that once a leopard hunts a human, it is more likely to hunt again. Though most leopards are terrified of humans and will keep their distance.

Last is the jaguar. It is located here in the United States. The larger males weigh about 350 lbs. and are about 6 feet long. The interesting part about the jaguar was the way they kill their prey. They call it the piercing method. They go for the temporal bones of the skull between the ears. There is also a black jaguar, it is also called a black panther.