Category: Big cats
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Wild Paradises – Tracking the tiger in Nepal
A very nice documentary video from France 2 (in French, but with very nice pictures), about the Tiger (le tigre du Bengale) as can be found in South West of Nepal, in Terai. YouTube link Most of the video has been shot in Chitwan National Park and Bardia National Park.
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Don’t bait the lion after a full Moon
When your safari guide tells you not to go outside of your tent at night, you should always respect this advice. Night is the right time for predators like lions to hunt. Most accidents in Tanzania happen in the last hours of the day or the beginning of the night. This is shown in the…
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Luffalo: A lion or a buffalo?
OK, I know this is an ad for a car, but it’s the rare occasion where you can see the (natural) hybrid of a lion and a buffalo. YouTube link
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Kevin Richardson: Is he a lion or a lion’s friend?
Kevin Richardson is a friend of animals who succeeded in doing things that few people would dare to try: Be completely admitted inside a lion’s den, inside a group of big cats. These animals do not usually play with human beings, but they are highly social animals and this is what Kevin Richardson used to…
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Snow leopards in Afghanistan
The population of wild snow leopards is very limited in our world where they suffer from an important pressure. But these animals living in high altitude valleys tend to be very difficult to observe and they may not be observed for long times when they live in isolated places. This more or less the story…
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Amur leopards shot in a trap
Fortunately, I am referring to a photo-video trap, not hunters’ traps. The critically endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) has been well observed by the WWF-financed counting operation in Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve and Leopardoviy Federal Wildlife Refuge (Russia). This is very good news since the species is believed to count only about 50 animals…