Archive for the 'Panthera' category

Sometimes, you believe you missed a step. Sometimes, you think you should have stayed at home.

But, being a flightless bird, wandering into the tigers cage and start calling them names was a bad bad idea…

If you know where it comes from, feel free to inform me (I found the photos on a Russian with not much details).

When you set a camera up to watch lion behaviour, you should be prepared for some wild uses of it. Here is what happened in Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve

Source: ScienceBlogs.

The Smithsonian, which is in United States of America the largest museum and scientific institution since 1846, recently published on-line a large collection of animal pictures taken by automatic cameras. They reveal a few unknown aspects of the animal behavior (when Man is not there to peep).

This Canadian artist works on painted pictures whose realism is striking (most people often think they are photographs, at first) and it is quite pleasing to see the very natural and touching attitudes of most of the painted animals. See some of his big cats.

Denis Mayer Jr. web site

Iain MacArthur is an English artist drawing amazing animal sketches (see his web site). To attract you to it, I present here a only one hand-drawn sketch of a big cat:

A lion on a wall of death - Getty Images

Thanks to PierreD, here is a photo of a lion on a “Wall of Death”. These circus and fair attractions included a fast car rushing on a vertical circular wall. In some cases an animal (preferably a large predator like a lion) was in the car – or the side car.

If you know a little more about these, feel free to comment here. PierreD is very interested in whatever information you would have about the cars invovled (often Maruttis in India, but others too).

This happened in Turkey, in a zoo.

A tiger found a way to leave its cage to meet a neighboring lion. This was in Ankara zoo and the tiger thus demonstrated its superior strength. Or that the lion does not fight well when it is surprised napping after a meal.

There are still six tigers and two lions in the Ankara zoo.

Source: BBC.

Or how can a grass-eating prey keep its calm even among the most aggressive predators.