Members of the cat family Felidae range from the great,roaring cars such as lion and tiger to the small domestic cat. They are separated into different genuses(family subdivisions),not because of their size,but because of their differences in their anatomy. These enable members of the genus Panthera to roar, while the small cars i genus felis cannot do so.
There is a third genus for the cheetah because they have non-retractable claws.Early in the 1990's there were more than 230 different species of cat in the family as whole,but now there are fewer than 30 . Many became extinct because cats have always been hunted and killed by humans for their fine pelts.
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