Sarah Esteje has made pretty impressive drawings using only a cheap ball pen. Like this tiger.

Tiger - Copyright Sarah Esteje

Robert Brandenburg has hijacked some mass-production paintings to make them look differently by the mere addition of unexpected elements.

Felis Leo - Johann Matthäus Bechstein

A picture from the 8-volume series by Johann Bechstein, ‘Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer Gegenstände’ (Realistic Pictures from Natural History), issued between 1795 and 1807. Seven of those volumes are available from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. (click through on a volume – band – then on anything below ‘Inhalt’, and then on ‘Vorschau’ for thumbnail pages.)

Bechstein books

Via BilbiOdyssey.

With a good video of a lion ride a “wall of death.”

A very nice looking poster for a WWF campaign against desertification. With a leopard.

A beautiful Russian documentairy video (translated into English) about the Amur Leopard, certainly the leopard species most clearly endagered by the very small number of animals left in the wild (in 1972, it was evaluated that their number was below 40 animals).

more recently, thanks to scientific studies organized by ALTA – Amur Leopard Conservation, it has been shown that their number may be growing very slowly again.

Panthera pardus orientalis Critically Endangered according to the IUCN.

A few pictures of these large and beautiful predators when I could approach them during a recent photo trip to Botswana.

Lion – Copyright (C) Yves Roumazeilles – All rights reserved

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Lion – Copyright (C) Yves Roumazeilles – All rights reserved

Botswana, October 2011.

My other photographs from Botswana are on http://www.redbubble.com/people/roumazeilles

Did you see a baby cheetah mew before?