Category: Panthera
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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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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…
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Unfair advantage
Sometimes, you believe you missed a step. Sometimes, you think you should have stayed at home. But, being a flightless bird, wandering into the tigers cage and start calling them names was a bad bad idea… If you know where it comes from, feel free to inform me (I found the photos on a Russian…
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Lioness playing with a camera
When you set a camera up to watch lion behaviour, you should be prepared for some wild uses of it. Here is what happened in Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve YouTube link Source: ScienceBlogs.