Category: Big cats
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Cheetah and cubs
Super! While in Kenya, I found a little cheetah family: A mother and her 5 cubs (only a few weeks old). Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, Guépard, Guepardo), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008. Unfortunately, from what I heard, three of the cubs have been killed by hyenas a few days…
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Sabertooth cats were social
The Sabertooth cat (Smilodon fatalis) is definitely the most famous fossil big cat. Armed with impressive canines, it was certainly quite a sight. These teeth were probably powerful weapons. But they don’t tell us anything about other non-fossilized issues, like the colour of its coat or its social behaviour. But, here comes a little surprise.…
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Snow leopards on Flickr
This superb animal has a great hpto group on Flickr. Here, there are beautiful images coming from either animals kept in world’s zoos, or photos taken by the Snow Leopard Trust which is currently working to protect the snow leopards (Uncia uncia) in the wild (in Central Asia, Mongolia). Snow Leopard Trust’s photostream
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Cheetah on the loose in airplane
It was a Delta Airlines flight from Portland to Atlanta (in the USA) which whose transporting two cheetahs in a cage in the luggage sotre of the plane. But a luggage worker was faced with one of them freely wandering out of cage. The Atlanta zoo provided its support to tranquilize the animals and allow…
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Profiles of a male lion
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Lion (Panthera leo, Lion, León), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.
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Rarest big cat caught for a check-up
When you are the rarest wild big cat, you deserve some unusual attention. This is what explains the special treatment of the Amur Leopard or Far Eastern Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis). It is widely considered as the single most endangered species of big cats with less than 50 individuals living in the wild (and only…