Category: Panthera
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Going to the zoo
Springtime brings many new animals to the parks and zoos, not only new visitors. Boston.com “The Big Picture” publishes some photographs from zoos and aquariums around the world from the past couple of months. A Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) roars as it feeds at the zoo of Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Urs Flueeler)
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Lion hunt
Eugène Delacroix – “”The Lion Hunt” (esquisse) Huile sur toile 86 x 115 cm – Musée d’Orsay, Paris – Image copyright © Musée d’Orsay, Paris Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris (cf. Artyst.net – Eugène Delacroix – “The Lion Hunt” ) Eugène Delacroix – “The Lion Hunt” – Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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Comparative anatomy
A nice drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, showing a lion and a man. Source: Bibliodyssey.
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Tigers used the ‘silk road’
DNA studies and thorough analysis led scientists to discoveries about how tigers migrated from China to Russia and through Central Asia. Apparently, Siberian, or Amur, tigers found in the Russian Far East today and visibly isolated from all other tiger populations, are a sub-species that evolved from the now-extinct Caspian tiger from Central Asia. Or…
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Behavioural Enrichment
Zoo animals are often restrained to live in an environment widely less interesting and less rich than the normal life in the wild. Some zoos have tried to diversify this environment (a little like what may be done sometimes with toddlers). The Boomer Ball company manufactures gaming balls for animals living indoor and they wanted…
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When pumas, jaguars and cheetahs lived in Europe
Big cats like lions, pumas, jaguars, cougars, cheetahs or leopards disappeared from continents where they could be found in prehistoric times. Here is a series of articles about prehistoric felines. Europe, where the sabre-tooths, lions and leopards are Pumas of South Africa, cheetahs of France, jaguars of England Source: Tretrapod Zoology