--- title: The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every cat in the big cats house is built for its own home: the snow leopard wraps its long furry tai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / The big cats house: snow leopards, jag… # The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment Lesson 82 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/0/) — Every cat in the big cats house is built for its own home: the snow leopard wraps its long furry tail round its face like a scarf, and its wide paws work like snowshoes on mountain snow. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/1/) — The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size, strong enough to crack a turtle's shell, and the clouded leopard can walk down a tree trunk head first like a squirrel. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/2/) — Keepers know that a bored cat is an unhappy cat, so they throw in a cardboard box stuffed with hay and meat, or spray a little perfume on a log, and the tiger tears and the lion sniffs and rolls. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/3/) — It is just what your kitten does with a box or a ball of string, because play and searching are practice for hunting, only a tiger's ball must be huge and tough. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/4/) — Snow leopards live high in the mountains of Central Asia; their tail is almost as long as their body and keeps the face warm and helps them balance on cliffs. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/5/) — A snow leopard's wide, fur-covered paws spread its weight like snowshoes so it does not sink; it cannot roar and makes a puffing sound instead. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/6/) — The jaguar has the strongest bite of any big cat for its size and often kills by biting through the skull or a turtle's shell. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/7/) — Jaguars and leopards both have rosettes, but a jaguar's usually have small dots inside; jaguars live in the Americas and leopards in Africa and Asia. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/9/) — Clouded leopards can climb down trees head first because their ankles turn backwards, and they have the longest canine teeth for their size of any living cat. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/10/) — A cheetah hunts by sight, so it likes a high spot to watch open land; it can reach about 100 kilometres per hour, but only for a few hundred metres before it overheats. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/11/) — Enrichment means giving animals things to search, smell, tear and solve, like boxes of hay and meat, so their day is more like life in the wild. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/12/) — Keepers sometimes spray perfume or spices in an enclosure, because new smells give cats something to explore, like a new toy. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/13/) — Pumas, also called cougars or mountain lions, chirp, hiss, purr and scream but cannot roar; a mountain lion is not a lion. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/14/) — There are about 40 kinds of wild cats, and most are small, like the swamp-hunting fishing cat with slightly webbed feet and the desert sand cat, whose hairy paws stop its feet burning on hot sand. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/15/) — Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting. - ← previous: [The big cats house: lions and tigers up close](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/) - next →: [The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)