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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Amur Leopard (from the name of the river flowing at the border between Russia and China, or Far Eastern leopard, Panthera pardus orientalis) is quite certainly the rarest and most endangered big cat in the world because of a wild population of only 30 to 35 individuals [1].
ALTA (the Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance) regroups 13 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that decided to fight for the preservation of these animals. Here is a 10-min video presenting the Amur Leopard and the Alliance.
This is not everyday that a new travel agency opens specialized in African wild life and nature (and its big cats). The end of 2008 brings us this event: Creation of Africa Exploration.
The founders went through other African adventures and escapades; This is a good warranty of a fully re-assuring experience and knowledge.
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