Archive for the 'Leopard' category

Life of a predator is not always easy. When you’re a leopard, you must learn to attack a prey that is small enough not to counter-attack and you must learn to look left and right before rushing in.

This photo is part of a set published on The Big Picture by Alan Taylor.

Only 25-35 of these cats remain in the Russian Far East. A team from the Wildlife Conservation Society capture a female Amur leopard to help with conservation efforts.

Copyright (C) Harrington Photography

From Harrington Photography.

This is a message that you should have learned from Aesop, if you are a little rat. Unfortunately, some animals can’t read. Here are two examples.

First, a fox found itself in the enclosure of a lion in the Wuppertal zoo (Germany). It left quite quickly after understanding the kind of error it made.

The lion and the fox (Martin Meissner/Associated Press)

The second is even more astonishing since this is simply a mere rodent which decided to go and eat part of the dinner of a leopard of the Santago Rare Leopard Project, in Hertfordshire (UK). The small rat, quite young and inexperienced, but not impressed at all, demonstrated that size is not all. When you got what it takes…

Le léopard et le rat (Copyright (C) Casey Gutteridge)

All Casey Gutteridge photos on the Daily Mail website.

Big cats like lions, pumas, jaguars, cougars, cheetahs or leopards disappeared from continents where they could be found in prehistoric times. Here is a series of articles about prehistoric felines.

• Europe, where the sabre-tooths, lions and leopards are
• Pumas of South Africa, cheetahs of France, jaguars of England

Source: Tretrapod Zoology

Jason Morgan paints tigers. He really does.

Siberian tiger (by Jason Morgan)

If you like his work, it’s a time as good as any to go and visit his web site. What is surprising is his willingness to be commissioned to do an original painting from a model you’d select.

But I also suggest you’d go to his blog in order to keep in touch with his work. You will be shown his work during its creation. It’s a great thing to see.

And, not surprisingly, you will notice that Jason Morgan also does cheetahs, lions, leopards and other big cats.

I just discovered an interesting web ste presenting classical paintings in a totally enthralling way. You can zoom in, zoom out, watch, admire, detail.

Hunting tiger, lion and leopard, on Artliste.com

How to shoot an extraordinairy photo of a leopard holding her cub to move it? After all, this is realtively easy: Take one big elephant and stick an automatic photo camera in its tusks. Then, wait.

Source: Daily Mail.

Nick Jewell has shot new images of the young cubs of Marley Farm – Wildlife Heritage Foundation. These Amur leopards are growing fast and start to show their teeth.

Photo Nick Jewell

Photo Nick Jewell

Shaba, for a leopard photo in Kenya.

Copyright (C) 2008 Shaba