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dr. dolittle | May 23, 2014Check out the unique bond between this bear, lion and tiger (i.e. BLT) at Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary in Locust Grove, Ga:
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gregladen | February 11, 2012This is a lion:
Click the picture for a larger version of the photograph. Photo by Greg Laden.
And here are selected blog posts about lions and related beasts:
Amboseli Lions May Go Extinct
The Evolution of Cats: Sabertooth vs. Regular
Tarangire Lions
The Lion That Ate the Earthwatcher
Biker and Greg get Eaten by Lions
The Lion, The Tent, and the Anthropologist
The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Lion Panthera leo Revealed by Host and Viral Population Genomics
The Science of Lion Prides
Lions being all liony
Where the lion sleeps tonight
On the Ownership of Large Dangerous Wild Animals
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jgoldman | June 2, 2011I was traveling last week, and I'm traveling again this week, so the posting is fairly sparse around here at least until after the weekend.
In the meantime, enjoy this awesome video. It was shot at Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve. The camera was left on the ground to record lion movements. A curious lioness found the camera and I'm sure you can guess what comes next.
(h/t Casey Rentz)
laelaps | May 22, 2010
A lion cub (Panthera leo) stalking its sibling, photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
laelaps | May 21, 2010
A Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer), photographed at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
Outside of the trash-grubbing black bears I occasionally come across when driving to hikes in northern New Jersey, I never encounter large predators near my home. The imposing carnivores which once roamed the "garden state" were extirpated long ago. This is a very unusual thing. For the majority of the past six million years or so hominins have lived alongside, and have regularly been hunted by, an array of large carnivorous animals, but humans have not been entirely helpless. Rather than a one-…
laelaps | May 5, 2010
African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) don't have it easy. Their taste for large mammalian prey puts them in competition with lions and spotted hyenas for both prey and living space, meaning that wild dogs regularly have their kills stolen or are even killed by other predators. In fact, the dogs may even be unintentionally attracting the attention of these other hunters.
Like other social carnivores, African wild dogs communicate with each other through body language and olfactory cues, but they also employ a variety of high-…
kthompson | April 21, 2010
Leave your infrared-laser tripped stationary camera to your dad, the whitetail hunting enthusiast, 'cause you're about learn what REAL wildlife photography is.
Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas just wrapped up their first (largely) successful photography expedition using their ingenious BeetleCam, a remote control camera ATV. The brothers have been professional nature photographers since 2004 but really set themselves apart from the wildlife photography hive when they strapped their DSLR camera to four tiny all-terrain tires, and camouflaged it.
After poppin' some major wheelies in the airport…
razib | September 27, 2009
Believe it or not, tigers are not the largest big cat. Ligers are (you might remember ligers from Napoleon Dynamite). Why? It has to do with the weirdness that occurs when you hybridize across two lineages which have been distinctive for millions of years, but not so long so as not to be able to produce viable offspring (in fact, many ligers are fertile as well). Here's the explanation:
Imprinted genes are under greater selective pressure than normal genes. This is because only one copy is active at a time. Any variations in that copy will be expressed. There is no "back-up copy" to mask its…
zooillogix | August 28, 2008Imaginative but effective ads from the Buenos Aires Zoo. Via Toxel and thanks once again to Kevin Z.
"Get Much More for Less" Ads
"The Kangaroos Have Arrived" Ads
Many more below the fold
"Now We Are Open Late" Ads
"115 Years" Ads
Together Video (note that we cannot endorse the historical accuracy of this friendship...)
Argentine readers please take note: I still do not have a shot glass from this zoo and Labor Day is coming soon, which is a HUGE gift giving holiday up here in the States.
zooillogix | May 23, 2007Kruger National Park in South Africa is a renowned location for observing some of Africa's most famous wildlife. Here we have all of that wildlife fighting one another, all at once. Basically this is Kruger's equivalent of a WWE event. Watch it through to the end or at least minute seven or so.