This list of largest cats shows the 10 largest extant
Felidae species, ordered by maximum reported weight and size of wild individuals on record. The list does not contain
cat hybrids, such as the
liger or
tigon.
List
Following list contains size (weight and length) measurements for wild adult males of each species:
^This refers to the length including the tail. Note that lengths given as "between the pegs" generally include the tail.
^The largest known lion measured 3.35 m (11.0 ft). An exceptionally heavy male lion near Mount Kenya weighed 272 kg (600 lb). The longest wild lion reportedly was a male shot near Mucusso National Park in southern Angola
^The debate on if the Sunda Clouded Leopard is simply a subspecies of the Clouded Leopard is still ongoing, as such it seems best to keep these 2 species as the same
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abEast Africa Exports and Business/Safari News. University Press of Africa, with contributions from the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce & Industry. May 1963. Retrieved 18 March 2018 – via Google Books.
^"27 Interesting Cheetah Facts". NewInterestingFacts.com. 31 January 2017. Cheetah's tails can be nearly 3 feet long, or over 80cm long. Taking these measurements together makes some cheetahs nearly 8 feet long, or over 230cm long, from their nose to the tip of their tail
^"About Cheetahs". Cheetah.org. They can measure from 40 to 60 inches in length, measured from the head to the hind quarters. The tail can add a further 24 to 32 inches bringing the total overall length up to 7.5 feet.
^Page, Amanda; Kirkpatrick, Win; Massam, Marion (January 2008). Risk Assessment for Australia – Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx). Government of Western Australia: Department of Agriculture and Food. pp. 1–18.