Category: Panthera
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It’s tough
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Nice Smithsonian pictures
The Smithsonian, which is in United States of America the largest museum and scientific institution since 1846, recently published on-line a large collection of animal pictures taken by automatic cameras. They reveal a few unknown aspects of the animal behavior (when Man is not there to peep). http://siwild.si.edu/
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Hyper-realistic paintings from Denis Mayer Jr.
This Canadian artist works on painted pictures whose realism is striking (most people often think they are photographs, at first) and it is quite pleasing to see the very natural and touching attitudes of most of the painted animals. See some of his big cats. Denis Mayer Jr. web site
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Hand-drawn big cat by Iain MacArthur
Iain MacArthur is an English artist drawing amazing animal sketches (see his web site). To attract you to it, I present here a only one hand-drawn sketch of a big cat:
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Wall of Death – A daring lion
Thanks to PierreD, here is a photo of a lion on a “Wall of Death”. These circus and fair attractions included a fast car rushing on a vertical circular wall. In some cases an animal (preferably a large predator like a lion) was in the car – or the side car. If you know a…
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A tiger kills a lion
This happened in Turkey, in a zoo. A tiger found a way to leave its cage to meet a neighboring lion. This was in Ankara zoo and the tiger thus demonstrated its superior strength. Or that the lion does not fight well when it is surprised napping after a meal. There are still six tigers…