June 18, 2021
NEWS AND COMMENTS-SOUTH AFRICA: A big cat keeper has been killed by a Siberian tiger at a wildlife park in South Africa. The Siberian tiger, Jasper, also killed another Siberian tiger and his objective...
May 25, 2021
A lioness, Vega, savagely mauls a trainer inside a small circus enclosure. The trainer, Maxim Orlov, struggles to get rid of the attacking lioness. He must have been hurt on his legs although he...
May 9, 2021
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the bones of nine Neanderthals from a hyena den about 100 km south-east of Rome. They think that the hyena den might have been the home of Neanderthals before it...
December 24, 2020
The major reason why lions living in the wild attack humans is because they are injured or elderly and infirm and as a consequence incapable of surviving in the conventional way by preying on...
November 3, 2020
Background “Black panthers” normally refers to melanistic leopards. These are leopards that are born black (dark charcoal) because of a genetic mutation. They are called melanistic leopards. I’m referring to the common leopard. Although...
July 24, 2020
The title really should read “suicide by big cat”. I’ve chosen the tiger because this is the big cat chosen most often by men (yes, it appears always to be men) who want to...
June 3, 2020
This is another story of a zookeeper being attacked by a lion or lions and suffering severe injuries. In this instance it took place at Shoalhaven Zoo in New South Wales, Australia. Jennifer Brown,...
April 15, 2019
This is Mumbai, India where they have a compact nature reserve very near or inside the city. There are leopards inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. I am guessing but it seems likely that...
December 13, 2018
Three Buddhist monks were meditating under a tree in a forest about 510 miles west of the state capital of Maharashtra, Mumbai, within a protected reserve for leopards and tigers and where four other...
June 16, 2016
Once they have found him, a man-eating lion living in the north-west of India in the Gir National Park will be spared and placed in a zoo instead of being shot. I like that....
June 10, 2016
Having been prosecuted for failing to protect their employees, a private zoo in the UK will have to fork out £400,000 ($574,000) which includes a fine relating to an earlier matter. The £400,000 and...
August 25, 2015
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...
June 2, 2015
Although my deepest sympathies are with the family of the bereaved woman, there is a good aspect to this tragic story which you may have heard about. In brief, on June 1st, an American...
Jaguar / leopard / Lion / Tiger / Wild Cat Species
May 25, 2012
I’ll be honest. I am reluctant to do a page on the classic big cat attack because all are due to people’s stupidity and lack of sensibility to the wild cat’s instincts and behavior....
