Category: lion

  • Friendly battle with the lions

    Kevin Richardson is well known for his success in approching lions enough to share games with them like if they were big kittens (obviously very big, too). This time, with the help of a portable video camera on his head, you will be able to experience some of what is happenning to him when a…

  • 21 gorgeous photos of lions

    21 gorgeous photos of lions

    Most of these photos (from LightStalking) are taken in zoos, but they look gorgeous anyway. Happy new year to all big cat lovers. Tree climbing Lion in Uganda 0186 by Merv Colton, on Flickr Brothers nose to nose by Tambako the Jaguar, on Flickr

  • 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.”

  • The lion who was crazy about football

    YouTube link

  • Some lions from Botswana

    Some lions from Botswana

    A few pictures of these large and beautiful predators when I could approach them during a recent photo trip to Botswana. Lion – Copyright (C) Yves Roumazeilles – All rights reserved < Lion – Copyright (C) Yves Roumazeilles – All rights reserved Botswana, October 2011. My other photographs from Botswana are on http://www.redbubble.com/people/roumazeilles