This is an horrendous story. The pictures of this cougar are painful. They are distressing. This cougar has severe arthritis and torn ligaments which explains the appearance of his hind legs. They look so painful. It is very upsetting to see this when this cat species is usually super-athletic cat. He was found in …
Wild cat attacks on people are invariably the fault of a person or persons. There is no fault on behalf of the cat. The cat should be left alone after the attack. When a wild cat attacks a person in a safari park or a reserve the cat should not be killed. The cat …
Rwanda has been without lions for more than 15 years. They were all poisoned by cattle-herders after the 1994 genocide because the parks were left unattended. Incidentally when lions are poisoned with carcasses laced with poison, vultures are as well. The vulture population of Africa has plummeted by 97% over three generations for this …
There is a proposal that the number subspecies of tiger should be reduced because it would make it easier to protect this now relatively rare and endangered species of wild cat from becoming extinct in the wild. In general terms the experts are saying that there are too many tiger subspecies because the difference …
The four species of lynx live in different places although there is a wide overlap between the bobcat and Canada lynx. The Canada lynx lives in North America (mainly Canada). The Eurasian lynx lives in Europe (patchy distribution), through to most of Russia and then Central Asia and also Scandinavia. The very rare Iberian …
The leopard is known for his spots. In fact they are “rosettes” (hollowed out, irregular shaped spots). Therefore a domestic cat that looks like a leopard must have spots. When a domestic cat has spots which are similar to the spots of a leopard then they more or less have to be a spotted …
How much do jaguars weigh? I mean the cat not the car! The average weight for an adult male jaguar in Central America is 56 kilograms. For females in the same region, it is 41 kilograms. The largest jaguars are found in the floodplains of the Pantanal region of Brazil and in the Venezualan …
“He is one of many wealthy individuals who are willing to spend in excess of £60,000 for the privilege of shooting a lion in South Africa. These lions are bred to be shot in so called canned hunting operations which have grown significantly in South Africa over the last decade.” (Animal Rights UK on …
