What affects us affects cats
Do wild cats have hairballs? There are two initial points to make about this question. Firstly, it is not the sort of topic covered in the best technical books on the wild cat species. Secondly, all cats, domestic and wild, behave in essentially the same way and therefore wild cat species groom themselves just …
Why did a group of lionesses kill a male lion at the Knowsley Safari Park, Merseyside? I’ve been scratching my head because it is not often that you read about female lions killing a male lion except to defend their cubs from male infanticide . In fact I can’t remember the last time I …
What animal is a lion scared of? The question refers to a single animal species and I can name one without hesitation and conveniently there is a story about the hippopotamus scaring off thirsty lions at a watering hole. It happened in Botswana in the Chobe National Park. A group of male lions stopped …
This is the height of human barbarity against a zoo animal. It’s about as low as humankind can get in their relationship with animals when they hack off the claws of a young lioness at a Palestinian zoo (Rafa Zoo, Gaza). The reason? So visitors can play with the lion without being scratched. It …
You just have to know what you are doing! And you have to have an amazing relationship with these big cats so you know for sure that you are safe. I wonder if he ever thinks about the possibility of it going wrong and the lion forgetting for a second that he is a …
How come lions don’t eat hyenas after killing them? Some asked this and all the answers that I have seen assume that the question is correctly stated by which I mean they have presumed that lions don’t eat hyenas. But who said that? It is not necessarily true and if there is some truth …
The African lion is endangered. Pretty much everybody on the planet knows it. It is caused by habitat loss due to commercial expansion funded by the Chinese, poaching for body parts and retaliatory killings by farmers. The African lion is under continual pressure and numbers are falling. There’s a sense of euphoria that the …
This may be a sign that a lion or lions in Kruger NP are suffering from pica. Either an individual lion or some members of a pride of lions are gnawing on visitors’ car tyres causing them to explode. This is completely abnormal and bizarre behavior and it is causing consternation among the Kruger …
