What affects us affects cats
I had to try and get this on the website. This is an old photo from Tippi Hedren’s home. Melanie Griffith is her daughter. At one time in the 1970s this huge male live-in lion was treated as a pet by Hedren’s family. “I cringe when I see those pictures now…” Tippi Hedren says. …
Who says cats are solitary, insular, aloof animals? Think again. This lion loves and adores her human friend. Video: Animal Lover Shares a Hug With Giant Feline Friend The love and affection from this lion screams out of the video. I recently wrote an article about a Times journo who believes that cats can’t …
This is an essay on the lion for students. It is free for anyone to use as they wish. If it is used it would be nice if a credit to PoC was provided. Amongst all wild cats, with the tiger, the lion is the top cat. The hypothetical debate as to whether the lion …
Many of us who are concerned about the environment and our wildlife may find hunting a subject that is extremely controversial. I can’t understand why folks take pleasure in hunting as a sport. However, due to wild animal habitat destruction caused by overbuilding and commercialization along with a lack of natural animal predators, the …
I’m pleased to see that Greg Hunt, Australia’s environment minister, has announced that he is banning imports of lion body parts into Australia. The intention, as I see it, is to stop Australian citizens going to South Africa to shoot lions, corralled in enclosures and specially bred for the purpose. This is canned lion …
The Kenyan authorities had been desperately trying to find ways to stop the poaching of endangered wildlife species in their country. References are constantly made in the online media to the slaughter of elephants for their tusks and rhinoceroses for their horns both of which are used to feed the insatiable appetite of the …
Several years ago, I came across the now famous video of Christian the Lion who had been born in captivity and lived in a London flat with his two owners John Rendall and Anthony “Ace” Bourke before being released into the wild in Africa. The video clip is of the reunion almost a year …
This is a photograph of a black lion. Before I saw it I had never seen a black lion before. Initially, I wondered whether the photographer had employed photo editing. I did not know for sure whether this lion was genuinely black. It looks as though the lion is genuinely black but there again …
