Category: Big cats
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Snow leopard photos from India
The Snow Leopard Trust organizes several scientific works related to the snow leopard. In India, Rishi Sharma pilots a program of camera traps aimed at snow leopards. They produced quite superb images, obviously because they were setup not only with data-collection in mind. Via Snow Leopard Trust.
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Photos of Barbary Lions
the Barbary Lion, sometimes named Atlas lion or Nubian lion, Panthera leo leo, is a sub-species of African lions which lived in the Atlas mountains (Morocco, Algeria, mainly). It is now totally extinct out of some zoos. But it seems that it was a great animal with a truly impressive look. Honoring its memory, I…
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Leopard in a car
We knew dogs who loved wind and were hanging out the window of their owner’s car. Here comes their friend the leopard… YouTube link
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Borneo leopard shot on camera
We know few things about this species (near to the Clouded Leopard) that is known under the name of the Bornean Clouded Leopard. But a scientific team recently surprised on of them in the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Malaysia. The team could shoot a short film of it while it is usually a very easily…
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A new tiger species: Heavy Metal Tiger
This new species was discovered last month in Borneo and the lucky photographer just presented amazingly nice photos. Even better, one of them is good enough to allow a direct identification of gender differences and the specific fur coat of juveniles.
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The monkey and the tigers (Tale)
YouTube link The moral in the tale lies somewhere around the need to understand the difference between a big cat who does not climb (the tiger) and one that climbs routinely (the leopard). The monkey knew.