Category: lion

  • 25 “Big Cat” Pictures

    WebEcoist assembled some nice photos of the nicest big cats. Tiger White Tiger Lion Leopard Black panther Cheetah Puma Snow Leopard Lynx Caracal

  • Photos of Barbary Lions

    Photos of Barbary Lions

    the Barbary Lion, sometimes named Atlas lion or Nubian lion, Panthera leo leo, is a sub-species of African lions which lived in the Atlas mountains (Morocco, Algeria, mainly). It is now totally extinct out of some zoos. But it seems that it was a great animal with a truly impressive look. Honoring its memory, I…

  • Kid’s book cover

    Kid’s book cover

    This scan of a children’s book comes from a wonderful compilation of a collection coming from between 1860 and the 1920s and assembled in a book: ‘From Mother Goose to Dr Seuss: Children’s Book Covers 1860-1960‘ by H Darling, 1999. There are a few more covers in the set (mostly without felines, though) that you…

  • Soon: The last lion in Kenya

    Soon: The last lion in Kenya

    photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar We usually think that a country rich of an impressive wild life like Kenya is nearly out of danger of seeing the full extinction of an emblem of Africa like the lion. This is not all so certain. According to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), wild lions from Kenya are…

  • Thief steals a lion

    A car thief probably got the surprise of his life when he grabbed the light truck from a circus. No doubt he thought he had a good one, but he got more than he bargained for: a 5-year old lion, circus star armed with a set of teeth able to recover the last remnant of…

  • Not only dogs open doors

    Not only dogs open doors

    This is what these visitors of the Lion Safari Park in Johannesburg (South Africa) learned while they were driving slowly in this wildlife park to admire some wild animals. But, this lion found how to open their Toyota’s door with its teeth. The driver had only a few seconds to understand that the best reaction…