Category: Big cats
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Kid’s book cover
This scan of a children’s book comes from a wonderful compilation of a collection coming from between 1860 and the 1920s and assembled in a book: ‘From Mother Goose to Dr Seuss: Children’s Book Covers 1860-1960‘ by H Darling, 1999. There are a few more covers in the set (mostly without felines, though) that you…
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Soon: The last lion in Kenya
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar We usually think that a country rich of an impressive wild life like Kenya is nearly out of danger of seeing the full extinction of an emblem of Africa like the lion. This is not all so certain. According to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), wild lions from Kenya are…
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Thief steals a lion
A car thief probably got the surprise of his life when he grabbed the light truck from a circus. No doubt he thought he had a good one, but he got more than he bargained for: a 5-year old lion, circus star armed with a set of teeth able to recover the last remnant of…
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Not only dogs open doors
This is what these visitors of the Lion Safari Park in Johannesburg (South Africa) learned while they were driving slowly in this wildlife park to admire some wild animals. But, this lion found how to open their Toyota’s door with its teeth. The driver had only a few seconds to understand that the best reaction…
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Sumatra: Tigers are back
Thanks to the WWF and one trap camera, we now know that tigers are still present in Sumatra. It was a place where you could find many of them, but at least there are a female and her three cubs. They will soon have to find their own territory and then the hard time will…
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Cheetah’s TwitPics
While randomly browsing old links from my bookmarks library, I found some that led me to a place I recommend to all cheetah lovers. The Cincinnati Zoo has a TwitPic account (CheetahDays) to presenter a daily photo of the zoo’s big cats. A large amount of cheetahs as you would expect, but you will also…