YLove Big Cats

  • Playing with lion cubs…

    Playing with lion cubs…

    Kevin Richardson appears to have found a way to approach African lions in total security. Today, we can see him with a lionness which let hime handle her cubs. Don’t try this at home. Or with your own Fido, not with Nala…

  • The Giant American Cheetah was not fast, but powerful

    The Giant American Cheetah was not fast, but powerful

    You certainly heard about the American Cheetah, this long-lost fossil of a cheetah which was living in North America up to about three million years ago. While the term calls images of a slender speeding cat, it seems that this was more a Giant Cheetah than a Cheetah. The Miracinonix genus was made of two…

  • Traffic delays at Kruger Park

    Traffic delays at Kruger Park

    Traffic jams are always a bit difficult to manage, but those ones…

  • You never saw a cheetah run like that

    You never saw a cheetah run like that

    Actually, the Cincinnati Zoo posted a video of Savanna, a cheetah. But the camera was… on the shoulders of the cheetah. Bumpy ride at full speed, but nice to see.

  • A cheetah plays in the snow!

    A cheetah plays in the snow!

    This is not usual: A cheetah playing in fresh snow. Not more common: A cheetah playing with a dog. But it was in a zoo…

  • An American dentist killed Cecil the lion

    An American dentist killed Cecil the lion

    Once upon a time, there was in Zimbabwe a lion known of nearly all the country: Black mane, Cecil. This lion was killed by a “poacher”. It was lurd out of the safety of the reserve where it was protected (Hwange National Park), then seriously wounded by a poisoned arrow, and finally shot by the…