Science quiz
Big cats and great apes: 13 species
Two famous groups of mammals: the five species of Panthera and the eight species of the family Hominidae. Type one and it drops into its box.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 13 answers
- Limit
- 3:30
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 13
- Time limit
- 3:30
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name the five big cats and the eight great apes.
Big cats (genus Panthera)0/5
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- 2Not found yet
- 3Not found yet
- 4Not found yet
- 5Not found yet
Great apes (family Hominidae)0/8
- 1Not found yet
- 2Not found yet
- 3Not found yet
- 4Not found yet
- 5Not found yet
- 6Not found yet
- 7Not found yet
- 8Not found yet
About this quiz
Panthera holds the lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard and snow leopard. The great ape family holds two gorillas, three orangutans, the chimpanzee, the bonobo and us.
- The cheetah and the puma are large cats but belong to other genera.
- The Tapanuli orangutan of Sumatra was described as a species only in 2017.
- Gibbons are apes too, but lesser apes, in a family of their own.
Sources
- [1]Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). ITIS taxonomic database.
Note on the data. The lists are every species ITIS files in the genus Panthera and in the family Hominidae. Each scientific name was looked up in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System on 3 October 2026 and is the valid name there; the class, order and family are the ranks ITIS files it under, and the common names are ones ITIS lists.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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