Category: Big cats
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Cheetah
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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Cheetah and cubs
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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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.