What affects us affects cats
After careful research I can only find two instances in which it is said that lions shed their mane but the information appears to be unsupported by good evidence and all the other instances of lions having thinner manes are due to environmental conditions such as the landscape in which they live and/or the …
“Lions appear to be primarily nocturnal..but there are no hard and fast rules as to when they are active”. Those are the words of two of the best experts on the wild cat species, Mel and Fiona Sunquist. It depends on a range of circumstances and conditions as to whether lions are active at …
London Zoo is exporting three lionesses to Schwerin Zoo in Germany in a rush to avoid what will probably be far more stringent export regulations after 1 January 2021 when the UK finally leaves the European Union. The zoo is exporting the cats to Germany to try and improve their chances of mating with …
It doesn’t matter whether we are talking about a lion or any of the big cats (and include the puma), the experts say the same thing namely that you must stand your ground. You do not want to act like a prey item and run because it triggers the hunting attack instinct. There’s no …
Yes, in India, Gir Forest Asiatic lions eat camels albeit relatively rarely. One point four percent (1.4%) of kills by Asiatic lions in that habitat were camels according to Table 56 OCCURENCE OF WILD AND DOMESTIC PREY ITEMS IN THE DIETS OF GIR FOREST LIONS (PERCENTAGE OF KILLS) at page 302 of the book …
Yes, lions eat the occasional young elephant if the opportunity arises. There is no shortage of images of lions attacking young and even adult elephants on the internet. There are also photographs of adult elephants stomping on lions and killing them in defence. Lions are very adaptable in the size of their prey. They …
An interesting study by scientists at University Lyon 1 and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that lionesses live at least 50% longer in the wild than male lions. It’s an interesting comparison to humans. In humans, women live an average 7.8% longer than men and this difference is found …
In the Gir National Park sometimes referred to as the Gir Forest a lioness is raising a leopard cub. This is highly unusual. This national park is well known as the home of the Asiatic lion. Counting lions is difficult but we are told that there are about 600 but their survival is precarious …
