Episode 1

The varied feline species adapted to about every environment on earth. Only African lions live in truly social prides, providing extra security and enabling them to take on huge prey like giraffes. The largest, tigers, adapted both to Indian heath, like America's giant jaguar -who even overpowers caiman- or the smallest, India's and Sri Lanka's rusty-spotted cat, and to Siberian winter, like the Himalayan snow leopard, whose near-empty, hence vast territory complicates mating gravely. The developed perfect hunting skills, like the land sprint-champion cheetah, actually as good at matching prey's evasive zigzag. Written by KGF Vissers