Big cat Big cat The term "big cat" is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus "Panthera", namely tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard. Except the snow leopard, these species are able to roar. A more liberal and expansive definition of the term includes species outside of "Panthera" including the cougar, clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard and cheetah, although these added species also do not roar. Despite enormous differences in size, various cat species are quite similar in both structure and behaviour, with the exception of the cheetah, which significantly stands out from the
The Big Electric Cat The Big Electric Cat The Big Electric Cat, named for an Adrian Belew song, was a public access computer system in New York City in the late 1980s, known on Usenet as node dasys1. Based on a Stride Computer brand minicomputer running the UniStride Unix variant, the Big Electric Cat (sometimes known as BEC) provided dialup modem users with text terminal-based access to Usenet at no charge. This was the first such system in New York, and one of the very first in the world. Previously, access to Usenet had been almost exclusively through systems at universities, or a few