A Michael Broad Blog
The owners of a serval cat in North Carolina are fighting local government to keep their cat, which the town government considers an exotic pet. Jon and Vivian Freed live in the city limits of Morganton. They have a serval cat named Tyra, whom they consider one of their children. Tyra gained attention this …
This is an interesting development in the aftermath of the well-publicised cheetah attack at the Kwa Cheetah facility, South Africa, on 10-year-old Aiden Davis. You can read about it on this page. It was highly traumatic for the boy and also his mother who is fighting for justice and compensation. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, a …
Quinn Swales, a photographic Safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in the same National Park in Zimbabwe that was the home of Cecil the lion (who was killed by the infamous dentist Walter Palmer), has been attacked and killed by a male lion. The lion’s name is Nxaha. He wore a …
Is it possible for a person without tools or a firearm to harass a jaguar, the world’s third largest cat with the strongest bite of all the cats? This is a slightly bizarre story from Hyderabad, India. A stockbroker allegedly bribed his way into a zoo in Hyderabad because he loves animals and wanted …
“Descendants of the monstrous man-eating lions of Tsavo in Kenya, that devoured dozens of railway workers in 1890s, blamed for new attack.” (journalistic hype) The original Tsavo man-eating lions are immortalised in the display above at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Now, it is said that their descendants are back …
Very recently, two attacks by two iconic American wild cats on domestic cats have taken place in California. In both instances the domestic cat survived. But I have since decided that this appears to be all hype or the reporting is misleading. Read on please. CBS reports a mountain lion attack on a domestic …
