NEW DELHI â Sheâs waiting for him, as she has been all her life. But when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dined with Barack and Michelle Obama at a glittering banquet Sunday night, his wife wasnât by his side.
Often called the largest cat of all times, the American lion or Panthera atrox, is probably the best known of all prehistoric cats after Smilodon. It lived in both North and South America (from Alaska to Peru) during the Pleistocene epoch, and went extinct 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age.
The massive paws, teeth, and rippling muscles of tigers scream king of the predators.. Tigers belong to the genus Panthera, or big cats. Other species in the genus are Leopards, African lions, Snow Leopards and Jaguars.Tigers, named Panthera tigris, include eight subspecies, distinguished by size, coloration, and geographic distribution. Three of these subspecies are extinct.They are the Caspian, Bali and Javan tigers. The five remaining subspecies are Bengal, Siberian, Sumatran, Indo-Chinese and, South China tigers.igers, named Panthera tigris, include eight subspecies, distinguished by size, coloration, and geographic distribution. Three of these subspecies are extinct. They are the Caspian, Bali and Javan tigers. The five remaining subspecies are Bengal, Siberian, Sumatran, Indo-Chinese and, South China tigers.