What affects us affects cats
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 the term “black panther” can also refer to other big cats black pumas or jaguars. The black jaguar is frequently …
NEWS AND OPINION – SOUTH AFRICA: While playing with his pet, white female lions who he had raised from newborn kittens, West Mathewson, 68, was killed by one of them because “instincts got the better of one of them”. He was seriously injured and died on the way to hospital. You know how you …
This really is a very distressing story. It hurts to read about it. It makes me sick to the stomach to be perfectly honest. It’s the kind of story which makes you wonder what the hell the human race is doing on this planet. It’s a story about a female tiger at Waccatee Zoo, …
People are using Google’s search engine to find out if tigers should be housed together when in captivity. And the answer is no because tigers are solitary animals. A zoo needs to replicate, as best they can, what happens in the wild. Clearly they are unable to do it because in captivity they normally …
TLAQUEPAQUE, MEXICO: A Bengal tiger escaped a private residence possibly owned by a crimimal who kept the cat as a status symbol. The tiger nonchalantly sauntered down the sidewalk in the hot sun minding their own business. A passing motorists spotted the tiger and the three guys chasing it. One carried a lasso. Another …
Note: I originally, in haste, mislabelled the cat a jaguar. I now see that I was wrong and I thank Irish for correcting me. I had thought the cat was a dilute coated jaguar. You can get some odd, hybrid type large cats in zoos but this was not one of them. This little …
It’s all over the news, an endangered male Sumatran tiger at London Zoo attacked and killed his intended mate soon after they were allowed to be together for the first time. Why did the male kill the female? The male cat is seven years of age and he arrived at Regent’s Park Zoo 10 …
This is another Chinese video. There is a slightly lengthy introduction which is, of course, all in Chinese. However, I think the main part of the video is worth waiting for because it is interesting to see a zoo tiger with a bad case of ingrowing claws. The reason is obvious: the tiger is …
