YLove Big Cats
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Big Cat Art
Christina Langman is a painter that does a lot of things around big cats and could well be described as a feline artist. You would think that this leads me to invite you to visit her gallery. Yes, I do. But not only that. You should check her blog: Big Cat Art Blog. She describes…
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No lions left in lion sanctuary?
This is the risk in this India sanctuary. From Scientific American and Reuters.
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Panthera, species and subspecies
Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae (the cats), which contains four well-known living species: the tiger, the lion, the leopard and the jaguar. The genus comprises about half of the big cats. One meaning of the word panther is to designate cats of this family. Only these four cat species have the anatomical…
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Malaria vaccine coming?
The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) pharmaceutical laboratory may have found the right one with a vaccine that is set to immediately enter phase III clinical trials. It has already succesfully tested on American volunteers and on 340 Tanzanian children. It seems to reduce the infection risk by 65% – without unpleasant interaction. All people traveling to tropical…
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Who’s hunting who?
Link to YouTube
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The cheetahs’ dinner
These three young cheetah males are actually very powerful, hunt together, take advantage of any kind of possible prey. In this case, one of them caught an isolated young gnu, just after the rain at the end of the afternoon. What happened seemed quite normal: They need to kill the prey (quite commonly by strangling…