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Lions, lions, lions. And more lions.
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Lions, lions, lions. And more lions.
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"Carnivores of the World" is a mind blower and a beautiful book.
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You have probably heard about the cougar which was just killed in Connecticut but which is thought to have wandered there from the Dakotas. Well, I have a couple of stories to bookend that story. One of them has to do with the lion...
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Hat tip: Todd....
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Category: Behavioral Biology
Even a basic and widespread mammalian trait is shaped by experience. This should calibrate one's thinking when it comes to assertions that different groups of humans have genetically determined differences in ability.
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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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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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Mala Mala, Limpopo Prov., South Africa....
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