Category: Big cats
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Panthera, species and subspecies
Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae (the cats), which contains four well-known living species: the tiger, the lion, the leopard and the jaguar. The genus comprises about half of the big cats. One meaning of the word panther is to designate cats of this family. Only these four cat species have the anatomical…
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Who’s hunting who?
Link to YouTube
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The cheetahs’ dinner
These three young cheetah males are actually very powerful, hunt together, take advantage of any kind of possible prey. In this case, one of them caught an isolated young gnu, just after the rain at the end of the afternoon. What happened seemed quite normal: They need to kill the prey (quite commonly by strangling…
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Cheetahs
After a month of November where I’ve shown a number of photos about cheetahs, I just wanted to provide a link to the excellent article in Wikipedia about Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus).
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Male cheetah
A young male, in the end of the afternoon, just before going for a wildebeest dinner. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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Hope for young cheetahs in Nesles
The Parc des Félins of Nesles (France) as received on the 30th of October, two male cheetahs arriving from the Al-Bustan Zoology Center of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). The managers of the Parc des Félins hope that these new members of the feline community in Nesles, after their initial acclimatation to the environment of French…