Category: Panthera
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21 gorgeous photos of lions
Most of these photos (from LightStalking) are taken in zoos, but they look gorgeous anyway. Happy new year to all big cat lovers. Tree climbing Lion in Uganda 0186 by Merv Colton, on Flickr Brothers nose to nose by Tambako the Jaguar, on Flickr
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Tiger drawn with a ball pen
Sarah Esteje has made pretty impressive drawings using only a cheap ball pen. Like this tiger.
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Hijacking
Robert Brandenburg has hijacked some mass-production paintings to make them look differently by the mere addition of unexpected elements.
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An old lion
A picture from the 8-volume series by Johann Bechstein, ‘Getreue Abbildungen Naturhistorischer Gegenstände’ (Realistic Pictures from Natural History), issued between 1795 and 1807. Seven of those volumes are available from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. (click through on a volume – band – then on anything below ‘Inhalt’, and then on ‘Vorschau’ for thumbnail pages.) Bechstein books…
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Taking a lion for a ride
With a good video of a lion ride a “wall of death.”
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Desertification kills 6000 species per year
A very nice looking poster for a WWF campaign against desertification. With a leopard.