journey from the wild
members of the cat family Felidae range from the great,roaring cats such the lion and tiger to the domestic cat. They are separated into different genres (family sub divisions) , not because of their size but because anatomy . These enable members of the genus Panthera to roar, while the small cat in genus Felis cannot do so. there is a third genus for the cheetahs because they have non-retractable claws. Early in the 1900s there were more than 230 different species of cat in the family as a whole,but now there are fewer than 30. Many became extinct because cats have always been hunted and killed by humans for their pelts.