What affects us affects cats
Male lions and male domestic cats share one behaviour that is rare amongst the family of cats. In both species of cat, several males may take turns mating with a female in heat. You would have thought that the males would start fighting over the female but fights are apparently quite rare. An older …
A game farm where 250 lions were bred to be shot in canned lion shoots or “driven hunts” were neglected so badly that they were starving to death. The weaker lions were highly emaciated and dominated by the stronger lions who took what little food was available. The game farm in Alldays in the …
No one and no animal eats a lion (provided the lion is alive) – wrong..some Americans eat lion burgers. One website states that the young Maasai are meant to kill and eat a lion (as a rite of passage). This is false today in that they hunt lions but do not eat them. They …
Professor Stephen Hawking FRS has joined up with Virginia McKenna, Will Travers and others, including Joanna Lumley, to urge the British government to take urgent action to prevent the continued disappearance of African lions. America has placed heavy restrictions the importation of lion products. It is time that the British government followed suit. They …
The pictures are stunning and sad. They are by Wim Van der Heever. Awesome work. The lionesses attacked a female buffalo and her calf. She was outnumbered by the lions and the outcome looked poor. A raging male buffalo stepped in to save her and the calf. Wim, 43, said: “The bull came and …
Walmart moms have compared the contenders in the race for the presidential nomination to cats. They must be cat owners. When a group of Republican American moms where quizzed about the merits of the three contenders: Kasich, Trump, and Cruz they came up with cats to express their views – and inanimate objects but …
This is the sad story of the best-known resident of Nairobi National Park, Mohawk, a male lion who was seen wandering around a place called Isinya, 35 miles south of the capital, Nairobi, on Wednesday morning. Nairobi National Park, Kenya, is bound by an electric fence except on its southern side where it is …
The last time I wrote about the trophy hunting of African lions was when I discussed Cecil, the famous Zimbabwean lion, who was shot with a bow and arrow by the infamous dentist Walter Palmer1. The world knew about this and the world was sick of it except for the damned trophy hunters of …
