The Indochinese tiger or Corbett’s tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) is a subspecies of tiger found in Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam and -up to now- in China. It seems that Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province (China) has killed -possibly in self-defense- the last known Indochinese tiger in China. Not satisfied with this altogether depressing act, he also ate the wild animal.

According to Reuters, the man is now in jail (he has been sentenced to 12 years).

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.

There is no limit to true love. Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen truly loves cats: She has got eleven (11!) of them in her South African house.

Nothing really remarquable, except the cats are:

• Four cheetahs
• Five white lions
• Two tigers

…and I don’t count the dogs.

This is love, big lvoe!

Riana tries to help in protecting those endangered species, since 2006 when she adopted her first cheetah, Fiela.

Last but not least, remember that wild animals are still wild animals, even when they are perfectly integrated in a family. In this case, they also have a lot of free space, which must contribute a lot to the overall stability of this adventure.

Source: Daily Mail.

In this famous natural park for observation of wild tigers in India, Ranthambore, here is what can be found as a safety instruction.

Only those who strongly believe in rebirth should risk going near

Cute and timid, isn’t it?

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.