Cats; a cosmopolitan family containing about thirty-five species of small to large carnivorous mammals including the cheetah, the cougar (puma), the ocelot, the lynx, the bobcat, the lion, the tiger, the leopard, and the jaguar; most of them inhabit terrestrial (land) and arboreal (forest) areas: While on their hiking trip through the mountains, Peter and John saw some different members of the Felidae family, which included bobcats and mountain lions.