Exceptions

During the period of heat when a male finds a female ready to mate, he follows her for several days until mating. Sometimes he stays longer in the company of the female, even dealing with his little for no apparent reason. Outside this period, few meetings, females are avoiding them, and preferring other males to stay away thanks to odors that mark the boundaries of the territories. Sometimes, however exceptions, such as when a male kills a large prey, sometimes it accepts to share it with females cohabiting with him. All these cases show that solitary can be sociable, but the most blatant example is that of young males, having just left their mother, who join for a while to find their own territory. This is often the case with cheetahs, whose social organization remains relatively unknown because they are neither social cats, no real solitary cats. By partnering and they enjoy the advantage of numbers, useful for hunting. However, even if he can cheetah adult males have overlapping territories, and despite these spontaneous associations, one can speak of true social organization. It also happens to young lions or tigers youth to follow this kind of behavior.