Category: Big cats

  • White tigers for a suicide

    When you want to suicide, there are plenty of ways. Some are prone to fail, some are difficult, some are discreet, some are gory and unpleasant for everybody around. That’s the last option that a worker at the Singapore Zoo has chosen for a public suicide: He jumped into the white tiger enclosure after using…

  • Leopards by Florence Diguer

    Leopards by Florence Diguer

    Florence is a friend who came to wildlife photography only relatively recently, but she’s progressing quite quickly. Sometimes, she is lucky enough to make an exceptional encounter. Today, she is showing us leopards found in the Okavango delta in Botswana, including a family feeding on a prey hauled up in a tree to protect it…

  • Cheetah and cubs, in the savanah

    Cheetah and cubs, in the savanah

    This female cheetah has her five cubs following her through the grass savanah, while she goes hunting for them. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Cheetah

    Cheetah

    Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Cheetah and cubs

    Cheetah and cubs

    Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Leopard buried with 12,000-year-old shaman

    Found in the North of Israel, here is a shaman buried 12,000 years ago, with some significant grave offerings: 50 tortoise shells A leopard pelvis A human foot Right! The leopard does not seem in very good company, but it must have been quite a burial. Source: Science Blog.