Category: Panthera
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Leopard in a car
We knew dogs who loved wind and were hanging out the window of their owner’s car. Here comes their friend the leopard… YouTube link
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A new tiger species: Heavy Metal Tiger
This new species was discovered last month in Borneo and the lucky photographer just presented amazingly nice photos. Even better, one of them is good enough to allow a direct identification of gender differences and the specific fur coat of juveniles.
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The monkey and the tigers (Tale)
YouTube link The moral in the tale lies somewhere around the need to understand the difference between a big cat who does not climb (the tiger) and one that climbs routinely (the leopard). The monkey knew.
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Kid’s book cover
This scan of a children’s book comes from a wonderful compilation of a collection coming from between 1860 and the 1920s and assembled in a book: ‘From Mother Goose to Dr Seuss: Children’s Book Covers 1860-1960‘ by H Darling, 1999. There are a few more covers in the set (mostly without felines, though) that you…
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Soon: The last lion in Kenya
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar We usually think that a country rich of an impressive wild life like Kenya is nearly out of danger of seeing the full extinction of an emblem of Africa like the lion. This is not all so certain. According to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), wild lions from Kenya are…
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Thief steals a lion
A car thief probably got the surprise of his life when he grabbed the light truck from a circus. No doubt he thought he had a good one, but he got more than he bargained for: a 5-year old lion, circus star armed with a set of teeth able to recover the last remnant of…