Category: Big cats

  • My GoPro against the cheetah

    That should be the title of this video where a wild cheetah goes exploring this weird object left by a wildlife videographer: a GoPro camera. You wouldn’t expect a cheetah to be so cute.

  • Tiger drawn with a ball pen

    Tiger drawn with a ball pen

    Sarah Esteje has made pretty impressive drawings using only a cheap ball pen. Like this tiger.

  • Hijacking

    Hijacking

    Robert Brandenburg has hijacked some mass-production paintings to make them look differently by the mere addition of unexpected elements.

  • An old lion

    An old lion

    A picture from the 8-volume series by Johann Bechstein, ‘Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer Gegenstände’ (Realistic Pictures from Natural History), issued between 1795 and 1807. Seven of those volumes are available from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. (click through on a volume – band – then on anything below ‘Inhalt’, and then on ‘Vorschau’ for thumbnail pages.) Bechstein books…

  • Taking a lion for a ride

    With a good video of a lion ride a “wall of death.”

  • Desertification kills 6000 species per year

    Desertification kills 6000 species per year

    A very nice looking poster for a WWF campaign against desertification. With a leopard.