Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens - Jacksonville, Florida
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This page includes lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, and other cats.

South African Lions
[A male lion, with a mane which is dark brown around its outer edges, faces the camera, but is looking down. A female lion walks from left to right across the grass in the background of the image.]

This male lion, doing what cats do best, has a different color mane than the male in the prior image.
[A male lion, with a mane which is just a shade darker than his fur, lies on the ground with his eyes closed and his legs off to the right.]

It wouldn't be the Jacksonville Zoo without a few jaguars. Here's one of them. (Jacksonville pro football team is 'Jacksonville Jaguars'.)
[The spotted big cat is lying on its side with its eyes closed.]

Twenty-two-month-old Sumatran tiger, Kinleigh Rose, who was born at this zoo, shows us her striped tail.
[The tiger stares down to the left of her silver feed container with her tongue noticeably out. The left side of her body is visible and her tail with its wide black stripes is curled as if she is moving it.]

Berani was Kinleigh's dad.
[Image is of the front half of the tiger from one side as he walks across the grass. He has his mouth open and his tongue out. (It was very hot that day.)]

Cinta (on the left) is a adult female Malayan tiger while Kinleigh Rose (on the right) is a 22-month-old female Sumatran tiger. Sumatran tigers are the smallest species, so Kinleigh will probably always be smaller than Cinta.
[Portraits of the faces of the two tigers have been spliced into one image. On the left, Cinta has her mouth open with her two lower canine teeth visible with tiny teeth between them. She has a definite pink nose with a tiny black dot on it. She has black stripes across her white and orange-brown fur. She has a lot more white in her fur than Kinleigh. Kinleigh is on the right and only has a few white spots on her early and a couple of places on her face. The outer fur on her face is white giving her a somewhat bearded look. The stripes on her face are wider than the other tiger.]

Penari is a Malayan tiger.
[The striped big cat is sitting in the front left corner of a cage yawning. It's pink tongue is clearly visible and matches the pink on the tip of its nose.]

Jaya, Penari's brother, submerged most of his body in the pool to keep cool.
[The striped big cat is resting his head on some rocks while his front paws hold some rocks across from him. The rest of his body is not visible as it is vertically submerged in water. There's a waterfall behind him and a pool of water in front of him.]

An Amur leopard in a typical cat pose
[The spotted big cat is lying across a large tree limb with its legs handing over the side. Its tail is resting on another part of the tree and its head is in a relaxed pose on the trunk.]

Amur leopard
[The spotted big cat is lying on the ground facing to the left into the sun. The back part of its body is off the image to the right. This leopard has very long light-colored whiskers.]

Florida panther (Blurring in foreground is fencing.)
[The panther is sitting on its haunches looking toward its left at something else in the exhibit. The panther is brown except for the area around its mouth which is white as are the whiskers extending from its face.]

The Florida bobcat has white patches on the backs of its ears. (Blurring in foreground is fencing.)
[Two images spliced together. The image on the left is the face and upper torso of the bobcat. It's mostly light brown with some darker brown stripes around its nose, parallel to its whiskers, and up its forehead. It has long white whiskers and a few long white hairs sticking out from above its eyes. The image on the right is a view of the back of the cat's head as it walks away from the camera. The backs of the ears are mostly dark brown but have a noticeable swath of white across the middle of them.]

Not all of the cats at the zoo are in enclosures. This one was wandering loose in the garden area near the giraffe exhibit.
[A light tan colored domestic house cat with white paws, a white stomach, and some stripes near the end of its tail.]

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