The Asiatic Lion is classified as a member the Pantherinae sub family that includes six big cats - tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard and clouded leopard.

Nepal has joined the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA), an India-led effort to conserve tigers, leopards, and snow ...

The focus of the International big cat alliance will be on the conservation of the world's 7 major big cats including tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, puma, jaguar and cheetah: PM Modi ...

The team also acquired DNA from around the world and compared the Amur tiger genome with that of the white Bengal tiger, the African lion, the white African lion and the snow leopard.

Globally, there are seven big cats – tiger, lion, jaguar, puma, leopard, cheetah, and snow leopard. Tiger, lion, leopard, and snow leopard are found in India.

He also launched the International Big Cat Alliance, a global initiative to enhance conservation efforts aimed at the tiger, lion, leopard, cheetah, snow leopard, puma and jaguar.

The new species that has been found is claimed to be the eighth Big Cat in the world after the Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Cheetah and Mountain Lion.

Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, and Leopard all come from the subfamily known as Pantherinae. Cheetah comes from the other still-living subfamily, Felinae. There are a lot of other cats left.

India’s tiger population tops 3,000, survey finds Efforts to revive India’s tiger population began 50 years ago over fears the big cats were going extinct due to poaching and habitat loss.