{"id":7823,"date":"2022-01-31T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:57:56","slug":"top-10-biggest-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/top-10\/top-10-biggest-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten BIGGEST Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0tigers to cougars, to fluffy your neighbour’s\u00a0pet, cats come in all different sizes. But which cat holds the title for being the BIGGEST? Find out in this top ten list!<\/p>\n

Since measuring the mass of the largest recorded animal in each species of cat can be kinda confusing we\u2019ve measured them out in pounds, kilograms and bowling balls. For the bowling balls we’ve used a standard 16 pound ball, the heaviest one in a regulation game, that way the next time you run into the largest cheetah you\u2019ll know it weighs around 7.4 bowling balls!<\/p>\n

10. Caracal (Caracal caracal<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"caracal\"<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 19kg, 42 pounds or 2.6 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: Africa, Central Asia and Southwestern Asia<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Caracal_caracal.html <\/a><\/p>\n

9. Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"clouded<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 23kg, 51 pounds or 3.2 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: South of the Himalayas around Nepal, Bhutan and some areas of Northeastern India<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Neofelis_nebulosa.html<\/a><\/p>\n

8. Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"euasian<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 36kg, 79 pounds or 4.9 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: From Western Europe to Russia to Tibet and Central Asia<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Lynx_lynx.html<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"cheetah\"<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 54 kg, 119 pounds or 7.4 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: Sub-Saharan Africa and Northern Iran<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Acinonyx_jubatus.html<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Leopard (Panthera pardus<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"leopard\"<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 65kg, 143 pounds or 8.9 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: Africa and Asia<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Panthera_pardus.html <\/a><\/p>\n

5. Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"snow<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 75kg, 165 pounds or 10.3 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: Central Asia to Northwestern China and Tibet<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Uncia_uncia.html<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Cougar (Aka Puma and Mountain Lion) (Puma concolor<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"cougar\"<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 120kg, 264 pounds or 16.5 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: From Southern Argentina and Chile to Southeastern Alaska<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Puma_concolor.html<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Jaguar (Panthera onca<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"jaguar\"<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 136kg, 299 pounds or 18.7 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: Southern Arizona and New Mexico to Northern Argentina and Northeastern Brazil.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Panthera_onca.html<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Lion (Panthera leo<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"lion\"<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 272 kg, 598 pounds or 37.4 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: Sub-Saharan Africa expect in desert and rainforests<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Panthera_leo.html<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\"siberian<\/p>\n

How big are we<\/strong>: 423kg, 931 pounds or 58.2 bowling balls<\/p>\n

Where we live<\/strong>: Northeastern China, Korea, Russia, parts of India and around the Himalayas<\/p>\n

http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Panthera_tigris.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out the Top Ten BIGGEST Wild Dogs!<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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From tigers to cougars to fluffy your neighbour’s pet, cats live all over the world. We\u2019ve tracked them down, weighed them in bowling balls and mapped them just for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,931],"tags":[75,171,90,335,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-7823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-10","8":"category-all","9":"tag-cats","10":"tag-jaguar","11":"tag-tiger","12":"tag-top-ten","13":"tag-wild-cats"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609103,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/609103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}