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laughingsquid:

Do Big Cats Purr?

So, if you have a domestic cat with a flexible hyoid bone, it would be able to roar?

Interesting.

“Okay, honey.”

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allcreatures:

A pair of Boreal lynx groom each other on a rocky hilltop at the Cabarceno wildlife park in Villaescusa, Spain…

Picture: Marina Cano / Barcroft Media (via Pictures of the day: 24 January 2012 - Telegraph)

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allcreatures:

The world’s best known leopard has been photographed with a very young cub. Zawadi, (the name means ‘the gift’ in Maasai) a cat made famous by BBC’s Big Cat Diary, has given birth at a very ripe old age. Photographer and Exodus guide Paul Goldstein, who took these shots, said: “I have never seen a cub this young before and as I have spent more time with this animal over the years than any other it was quite a moment. These spotted cats rarely live beyond 12, so to give birth at 16 is unheard of.” Picture: PAUL GOLDSTEIN/EXODUS/REX FEATURES

 So fuzzy and ickle.

anthropomorphia:

Ethiopian girl guarded from gang rape by three lions.

“The girl had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them. She was beaten repeatedly. Then the lions chased off her captors. The three lions guarded her for about half a day. They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest.”

Then, Stuart Williams (the local wildlife ‘expert’) suggests that perhaps the lions mistook the 12 year old girl’s cries for a lion cub. Which seems awfully silly, considering that lions are perfectly capable of telling the apart the gazelles they eat from their own cubs, aren’t they?

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frozenplanet:

“The Amur leopard, the rarest cat in the world. There are only forty Amur leopards left in the wild and that number is falling.”

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allcreatures:

A baby Persian leopard enjoys the autumn sun at the Bio Park in Rome, where he was born September 1. The Persian leopard, the largest leopard subspecies, is an endangered species. It is native to an area stretching from eastern Turkey to western Afghanistan, but there are only around 1,000 animals in the wild.

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allcreatures:

A 370lb Golden Bengal Tiger bows its head and placed a paw up to the hand of a small girl. Photographer Dyrk Daniels says: “I noticed this little girl was leaning against the glass with both hands out stretched staring at the ‘big kitties’. I could not believe my eyes when Taj approached the girl, bowed his head and then placed his huge right paw exactly in front of where the little girl’s left hand was. It was incredible to watch. Taj let down his right paw, rubbed his cheek against the glass where the little girl’s face was and moved off.” Far from being scared, the little girl was so excited that she started clapping as she walked back towards her mother.

Picture: Dyrk Daniels/ Solent News & Photo Agency (via Pictures of the day: 31 October 2011 - Telegraph)

Dawwww.

mudwerks:

[Tony the Tiger has been made redundant…]

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