What affects us affects cats
Normally, lions do not eat other lions but it is reported anecdotally that there have been exceedingly rare exceptions of male lions eating the young offspring of females in a pride that they wish to take over. Perhaps the biggest exception is the legend of the Mapogo lions who were notorious for killing a …
Warthogs have dens. They can make them under rocks or they can use burrows. And they tend to sleep and breed in abandon aardvark dens. These consist of a tunnel leading to a large underground chamber which is ideal for the warthog in which to shelter. Lionesses appear to know that and to quote …
The social organisation of the lion is in flux but it is useful to start at the situation that most people know which is a settled pride of lions comprising, on average, 4-5 (range 1-11), related females (sisters, daughters, cousins and aunts) with their young and sub-adult male offspring and a temporary, unrelated coalition …
Lions are quite capable swimmers. Judging by the video on this page, sometimes, they don’t want to get wet! This majestic lion needs to get across a small patch of water and is reluctant to get more than his feet wet. He gingerly walks into the pond. It’s quite amusing and quite telling at …
The lion and the spotted hyena, two entirely separate species occupy the same or overlapping territory on the African continent. The scientific word for this is that these two species are sympatric. They are both large animals and are in competition with each other. This creates a certain amount of fascination as to how …
Most wild cats lead solitary lives. Except for cheetahs and lions, adult wild cats live and hunt separately. By contrast, we know that the purpose of domestic cats is not to be solitary but to engage with humans and other animals including animals of the same species. We must therefore distinguish between wild and …
It’s a sentimental question but a fair one and the answer has to be yes if we define love as a strong emotional connection between sentient beings. You never see any reference to lions feeling love for each other in the books on the wild cat species. They are all about science and the …
This post is specifically about the act of killing a prey animal. I am not going to discuss the predation process as a whole i.e. the stalking and attacking elements of the kill. This is about how a lion might kill the animal that they have caught and the type of killing bite employed …
