Family FELIDAE (CATS)

• Small to quite large mammals with rounded head and ratherflat face, facial whiskers, and large eyes and ears; sleek and streamlined body with muscular legs.

• 48.639 9 cm.

• Holarctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, and Oriental regions.

• From desert through forest to mountain areas, from cold temperate zone to tropics.

• 14 genera, 37 species,at least 228 extant taxa.

• 1 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 9 species Vulnerable; 5 subspecies Extinct since 1600.