Big Cats

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  1. 2. Tigers attack from the side or from the -
  2. 6. Markings on the back of the females’ -- are used as a signal in coordinating group hunting
  3. 7. The only truly social cat species
  4. 9. Name of our female puma
  5. 10. A tiger depends more on sight and hearing than on – to hunt
  6. 11. Name of our male puma
  7. 13. Cats that are able to roar have an incompletely ossified --- apparatus
  8. 14. Pumas are threatened by poaching of their – base (two words)
  9. 16. They descend to approximately 4,800’ during ---
  10. 18. Name of our female snow leopard
  11. 19. A lone male lion is called a -
  12. 20. Jaguar kills can usually be identified by finding canine punctures through the
  13. 22. Young pumas use loud, chirping -- to call their mothers
  14. 24. Leopards give a distinctive rasping call, rather than a -
  15. 25. For this cat the most consistently important food is deer
  16. 28. Dark-maned male lions enjoy longer -- life-spans
  17. 31. Lions often feed on this part of the body first
  18. 34. Larger animals killed by leopards are killed by -
  19. 35. Like small cats, snow leopards feed in this position
  20. 37. Name of our male jaguar
  21. 38. Name of our female Amur Tiger
  22. 39. The jaguar is the only large, wide-ranging carnivore in the world with no -
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  1. 1. In the wild, snow leopards eat
  2. 2. Leopards are extremely endangered. It is estimated that there are between 20 and 30 existing in this country
  3. 3. The jaguar is longer, heavier and stronger than this animal, its New World equivalent
  4. 4. Has the most powerful bite of all big cats
  5. 5. Name of our female jaguar
  6. 7. White lions that carry the recessive white gene
  7. 8. Name of our male African Lion
  8. 9. Flagship species of the high mountains(two words)
  9. 12. Pumas geographic range is the
  10. 15. Scent-marking is a form of olfactory -
  11. 17. Small prey are dispatched by a swipe of the
  12. 21. Jaguars require safe -- corridors
  13. 23. Male lions mark boundaries by (two words)
  14. 26. Tigers are not good climbers. Adults only climb trees in -
  15. 27. Name of our male snow leopard
  16. 28. Tigers symbolize power and respect and have become a symbol of -
  17. 29. How many subspecies of leopards are there
  18. 30. Yearly food consumption is about 48 -- per puma per year
  19. 32. Largest living member of the cat family – Amur -
  20. 33. Lions and lionesses mate for – (two words)
  21. 36. Name of our female Amur Leopard