Big cat Exceptionally heavy male lions and tigers have been recorded to exceed in the wilderness, and weigh around in captivity. The liger can grow to be much larger than its parent species, the lion and tiger. In particular, a liger called 'Nook' is reported to have weighed over . 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
USS Wild Cat (1862) in April, the schooner was transferred to the Union Army on 15 April 1865. Apparently returned to the Navy within three months time, "Wild Cat" was sold at Charleston on 28 July 1865. Her subsequent fate is unknown. USS Wild Cat (1862) USS "Wild Cat" (1862) was a captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War. She was put into service by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. "Wild Cat"—a wooden-hulled schooner captured by the Federal Navy in