Month: October 2008
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Leopard in a tree
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Leopard (Panthera pardus, Léopard, Leopardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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Snow leopard scat is key
As a matetr of fact, the faeces from this big cat (the snow leopard) just acquired a higher status. A scietifical study just showed that a genetic analysis of the dejections of this animal allow a very precise identification (sometimes down to the individual identification) and give an excellent capacity to evaluate the bio-diversity and…
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Young lion
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Lions would want to be house cats
Or so it seems according to this advertisment for cat food.
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The lion that could not be a house cat
In 1969, John Rendall and Ace Berg, bought a lion cub at Harrods. They gave him more space, brought it tame, then decided to free him in Africa (he was getting much too large for their flat!) A year later, they heard that he was the head of his own pride. Despite the near-impossibility that…
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Lions are just big cats
Really! This is what this Japanese video tries to demonstrate. Link to DailyMotion