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Category: Cat
Although the paper addresses Tanzanian lions, this is a photograph of a Namibian lion Starting some years ago, we began to hear about revisions of the standard models of lion behavioral biology coming out of Craig Packer's research in the Serengeti. One of the...
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Category: Cat
Katz: Dawg: OK, so the Dawg obvoiusly wins. Let's give the katz one more chance:...
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Category: Cat
Winged kitty cats are not unheard of in China, but a new alate feline is always news. The winged cats can not fly, of course, or you would have heard about them before. They would be like these flying killer sharks. Scientists have narrowed down...
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Category: Congo Memoirs
... there were two things I could not hear. I could not hear any sign of the lions, and I could not hear any sign of Zorba and his crew. Kunuzu would sleep all day if you let him. The others would sleep late if they could. But Zorba and his crew should be up, clanking around in the kitchen area, telling stories, singing. Zorba's booming, gravelly, jovial, challenging, welcoming voice should be wafting back and forth across the camp as he told one person to get working faster, asked another person about his sick uncle, pontificated on the philosophy of monogamous vs. polygynous marriage, and so on and so forth. But there was only silence.
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Category: Cat
Mala Mala, Limpopo Prov., South Africa....
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Category: Cat
Has, sadly, died. It was just a month ago that ScientificAmerican.com reported the happy tale of a lost cat named George that came home 13 years after rescuers traced his owners through information on a microchip in the scruff of his neck. He was...
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Category: Cat
This tiger was owned by a large cat breeder and handler who provides tigers, lions, and some other beasts for the entertainment industry. Notice the white spots on the tiger's ears. I spent a fair amount of time with this tiger, in its enclosure,...
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Category: Cat
Lions are more diverse than many may think. Indeed, recent research shows that lions may be comfortably divided into races. An expert on lions can tell you what part of Africa a particular lion is likely from by how it looks. Have a look at...
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Cute baby lions. When they grow up, they will want to eat you. I'll never forget the first wild lion I ever saw. It was a pitch black night, on the savanna in the Western Rift Valley. I had climbed on top of the...
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Sabertooth Cat, Megantereon nihowanensisl There are two kinds of "true cats." Cat experts call one type feline or "modern" partly because they are the ones that did not go extinct. If you have a pet cat, it's a modern/feine cat. This also includes the...
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