Wild Cats Multiple Choice

The other three are all in the other extant subfamily, Felinae.

The domestic cat and the sand cat belong to the genus Felis.

The marbled cat is a small cat native to the eastern Himalayas and Southeast Asia with a very long tail. The Pampas cat is another small cat, from South America, which is slightly larger than a domestic cat. The flat-headed cat is an endangered species native to Southeast Asia.

Panthera tigris tigris and Panthera tigris sondaica, otherwise known as the Sunda Island tiger. There are five extant populations of Panthera tigris tigris (Bengal tiger, Siberian tiger, South China tiger, Indochinese tiger and Malayan tiger) and one extant population of Panthera tigris sondaica (Sumatran tiger).

Fishing cat scat collected in India showed that around three-quarters of the animals' diets consisted of fish, yet the cats also ate birds, insects, small rodents, molluscs and reptiles.

Fossils have been found from Canada to Chile.

The Iberian lynx is critically endangered.

It is a population of Panthera leo leo, a subspecies that also lives in West and Central Africa.

They are adapted to live in cold continental climates with little rainfall and wide temperature ranges.

Bite force quotient, or BFQ, is how this is measured. For the jaguar it is 137, the same as the clouded leopard. The lion's BFQ is 112, the cougar's is 108 and the leopard's is 94. Interestingly, the sand cat (pictured in the thumbnail) has a BFQ of 130, slightly higher than the BFQ of the tiger.

The genus Dinofelis first appeared at least five million years ago, earlier than other the cats, and went extinct around 1.2 million years ago. Species of Smilodon existed between 2.5 million years ago and 10,000 years ago, the American lion existed between 340,000 and 11,000 years ago, and the Eurasian cave lion first appeared around 460,000 years ago and went extinct between 15,000 and 14,000 years ago.

Eurasian lynxes generally weigh between 12 and 32 kilograms, and one from the Altai Mountains weighed 35 kg. The heaviest bobcat accurately weighed was 22.2 kilograms, the heaviest Canada lynx was 20 kilograms, and Iberian lynx usually weigh up to 15.9 kilograms.

Weasels belong to the suborder Caniformia, which includes animals such as dogs, bears and seals.

It is the official symbol of Tatarstan, and was also used in Volga Bulgaria and the Khanate of Kazan.

The Scottish wildcat is currently only found in northern and eastern Scotland, though European wildcats could once be found throughout Britain.