A Michael Broad Blog
Fatal mountain lion (puma) attacks on people – often hikers in the beautiful American countryside – are very rare. But sometimes the cat is totally committed to the attack and cannot be scared off using the usual well-known techniques. This story is one such case. The sad story of a recent fatal mountain lion …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story comes from South Africa. I have started that way because South Africa has a bad reputation for abusing lions. They offer canned lion hunts to rich Europeans and Americans. They breed lions for these hunts. They abuse lions in the interests of financial profit. It’s a bad relationship with …
The image of a dead lion with bees swarming over the body has been removed from the containers of Lyle’s Golden Syrup. The tin is the most iconic packaging. The logo was unchanged for 150 years and it is an illustration of a biblical story from Judges 14 because the founder of Lyle’s Golden …
In this video we initially see a lioness copulating with a male lion. And then along comes the male lion’s dominant brother. We can see this because the dominant male attacks his subservient brother who behaves in a submissive way by rolling on his back. In the meantime, the female who is in heat …
There is a lot of talk online about Taylor Swift’s much loved Scottish cat, Olivia Benson, having a net worth of $97 million. This is obviously massive and far more than nearly every single person on the planet is worth including many rich people. But how did they work out this gargantuan number? We …
The Independent newspaper reports on a study which concluded that a big-headed invasive ant species has taken hold at 1,600 locations from East Africa to southern American states. It’s a remarkable story of an invasive species. Please note that species of all kinds become invasive because humans carry them to their new homes. We …
The Mail Online reports that Philip Yorke, 82, has designed a cat collar which he believes might be very effective in protecting British birds. This is important. It’s important because of all the animals that domestic and stray cats hunt, the bird is the most precious to the British public. They don’t like it. …
This picture of a lion cub’s spotted and striped coat in contrast to their father’s plain coat caught my eye as a good example of nature protecting the vulnerable lion cub by improving their camouflage which is customised for the environment in which they live. The spots and stripes disappear after around nine months. …
