Category: Panthera

  • New African agent

    New African agent

    This is not everyday that a new travel agency opens specialized in African wild life and nature (and its big cats). The end of 2008 brings us this event: Creation of Africa Exploration. The founders went through other African adventures and escapades; This is a good warranty of a fully re-assuring experience and knowledge. We’ll…

  • No lions left in lion sanctuary?

    This is the risk in this India sanctuary. From Scientific American and Reuters.

  • Panthera, species and subspecies

    Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae (the cats), which contains four well-known living species: the tiger, the lion, the leopard and the jaguar. The genus comprises about half of the big cats. One meaning of the word panther is to designate cats of this family. Only these four cat species have the anatomical…

  • Who’s hunting who?

    Link to YouTube

  • 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…

  • Leopards by Florence Diguer

    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…