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Lion’s lunch

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:41:33 +0000

This lion is also eating a gnu.

You will easily notice that flies are a very common insect around big cats. No, these are not black defects on the image.

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Lion (Panthera leo, Lion, León), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

The lionness lunch

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:15:56 +0000

Found in the morning, this lionness had just kill a gnu (wildebeest). After eating most of it, she actually tried to hide the carcass in order to avoid seeing it stolen by others (hyenas or vultures, for example).

Lionness - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
Lionness - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles	Lionness - Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles
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Lion (Panthera leo, Lion, León), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

Big cats images on my new web site

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:59:08 +0000

If you are interested, you can find some of my images about big cats (lions, leopards, cheetahs) on my new web site YLoveBigCats.com. As you certainly have noticed, some of these images come from my recent trip to Kenya (Masai Mara).

Lions in the Kenya morning

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:00:19 +0000

A few images of lion females on YLoveBigCats.com (Kenya 2008).

Lion portraits

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:33:50 +0000

I published a few shots of lions. Portraits taken in the Masai Mara park (Kenya). My prefered is the following one:

If you click on the thumbnail image, you will enlarge it. And you may notice that the photographer (and its car) are appearing in the eye of the lion.

But there are several other images taken nearly at the same time on the original Big Cats web site. Yes! This is another of my web sites. Actually, YLoveBigCats.com is a separate location to publish information specifically about the big felines of the world (and some of the my photos of them).

Back from Masai Mara

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:11:30 +0000

After about 10 days out of France, I am back from the Masai Mara National Reserve (in Kenya). I brought back about 30 GB of wildlife photos (around 1700-1800 images) to be sorted out in the coming days. You can expect series of published images here on a regular basis.

Kenya in photo safari

Yves Roumazeilles — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:20:26 +0000

You will probably notice a little slow down in publication of posts here in the coming days: I am travelling for a few days to Kenya in order to shoot photos in the Masai Mara National Park during the great migration of herbivores (wildebeests and zebras, mostly).

I will be there with Alain Pons, wildlife photographer, and supported by Amawanda travel agent.

Images later here.

A lion without travelling to Africa

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:13:27 +0000

Even better than going to Africa, you can have your own lion pet, cute lion cub at home.

Furry and reacting to its environment, this is really a cool robot toy.

http://www.gizoo.co.uk/Products/ToysGames/RadioControl/WowweeAliveLion.htm

£49.95 (about $100 USD or 75€) in pre-order.

Big cat photos (James Pan)

Yves Roumazeilles — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:15:51 +0000

A few top-quality images taken by James Pan. Felines, lovely big cats and other animals shot in perfect portraits.

Source: James Pan.

Jaws, on firm ground

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:03:45 +0000

Feline teeth are their most prominent exterior feature. Since the prehistoric Smilodon (the smiling feline) and its gigantic canines, big cats use their impressive dental characteristics to hunt.

On the Laelaps web site, you will find a detaileld article on feline teeth, from yesterday to nowadays: What big teeth you have. Please, also notice the hunting videos (lions hunting elephant, lions hunting a giraffe).

Cheetahs and elephants roaming free in USA

Yves Roumazeilles — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:23:52 +0000

Yesterday, we were speaking here about prehistoric big cats in places where they disappeared (e.g. Europe). Today, I want to point at a surprising proposal made by Josh Donlan.

Recognizing that many big cats were roaming in North America tens of thousands of years ago, he want to re-introduce lions, cheetahs, elephants and other large animals in North America. He admits that this could be a bit difficult and that there is no way to rebuild the original population. But he offers ideas about how to bring camels and lions (from the closest relatives species) to a country were they were last seen hundreds of centuries ago.

Of course, it sounds a lot like Jurassic Park for real. Are you ready to find in the United States cheetahs hunting pronghorn bucks in the Wild West (wild again) or in Montana?

Cheetahs, pumas and jaguars of Europe

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:07:06 +0000

Found on Tretrapod Zoology, a series of articles about prehistoric felines among which one can find big cats like lions, pumas, jaguars, cougars, cheetahs or leopards on continents where they totally disappeared later.

Kenya safari video

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:02 +0000

Source: http://www.coreybehnke.com/.

Masai Mara Safari Camp

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:42:27 +0000

Handbook of animal anatomy (lions and others)

Yves Roumazeilles — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:29:09 +0000

These images come from the classic works of the German veterinary anatomists, Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum, and medical illustrator, Hermann Dittrich. The texts, from which these illustrations were derived, are works published in 1898 and 1911 through 1925, all entitled ‘Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler‘ which can be translated as “Handbook (or Atlas) of Animal Anatomy for Artists” and are online at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Botany Department Teaching Collection. There are about eighty images in total relating to the lion, goat, horse, deer, dog and cow.

Source: BiblioOdyssey.

Are lions really dangerous?

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:19:05 +0000

Sure they are! But Kevin Richardson, animal behaviourist, has learned how to go freely with them.

He found that behaving submissively could ensure that the lions would accept him in their group.

Source: DailyMail.

Natural selection in the act – Life is hard in the bush

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:00:53 +0000

If you want to survive, live long and have siblings, you need to eat. This is not going to happen if your food is stolen:

Link

To be clear, I did not see that when in South Africa two months ago, but I would have loved to be there shooting images… And I can tell from the sound (or lack of camera shutter noise) that there was no photographer in the car this day.

Madness with big cats

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:00:34 +0000

Neatorama had a mad streak of posting with all these images and videos about big felines in weird contexts. It’s no longer wildlife, but it’s zazzy enough to show.

In this order, you will find below:

The leopard in the bed
The cheetah in the car (video)
The lion in the tub
The tigers and the chicklets

(I love tamed lions!)

Lions of South Africa

Yves Roumazeilles — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:00:59 +0000

Amongst the big five (the prefered game of safari hunters in the 19th and 20th centuries), there is -of course- the mighty lion. I did not kill any, but I shot several images:

Lion cub

Lionness
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Eye of the cat

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:24:18 +0000

As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.