Category: Panthera

  • The lion who was crazy about football

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  • Some lions from Botswana

    Some lions from Botswana

    A few pictures of these large and beautiful predators when I could approach them during a recent photo trip to Botswana. Lion – Copyright (C) Yves Roumazeilles – All rights reserved < Lion – Copyright (C) Yves Roumazeilles – All rights reserved Botswana, October 2011. My other photographs from Botswana are on http://www.redbubble.com/people/roumazeilles

  • Big cats play with light too

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  • Interpol: New claws for the tiger

    Interpol: New claws for the tiger

    Interpol, the international organization against crime, decided to add another theme to its already existing activities: Defense of the Tiger with the creation of project “Predator” which aims at coordinating police forces, custom forces and local and global organizations for protection of wildlife (essentially in South East Asia). Thanks to L.Boucher for pointing me to…

  • 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.

  • Don’t bait the lion after a full Moon

    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…