YLove Big Cats
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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.
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30min video about Amur Leopard
A beautiful Russian documentairy video (translated into English) about the Amur Leopard, certainly the leopard species most clearly endagered by the very small number of animals left in the wild (in 1972, it was evaluated that their number was below 40 animals). YouTube link more recently, thanks to scientific studies organized by ALTA – Amur…
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The lion who was crazy about football
YouTube link
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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