Archive for the 'Lion' category

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

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.

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.

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:

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.

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

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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
(Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image)

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

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Life in the wild savanah is a weird mix of leisurly quiet life (herbivorous graze in the sun, lions sleep in the shade of a tree, hippos float lazily in a river) and of terrible activity (antelopes are always alert about what is happening around, felines start running as fast as they can in order to hunt a needed prey, crocodiles spring onto the inattentive passer-by along a piece of water).

But the first thing you will notice is a slow quiet pace. The most striking element of this is the omnipresent animal yawn. And I want to celebrate this with a braid of photographs. But do not forget the fight for life.

Hippopotamus seem to be yawning, but it is actually part of its digestive processes.

 

On the contrary, the lions are dozing in the shadow during most of their day (it eats, sleeps, hunts to eat).

Lions are everywhere in the plains of the Masai Mara. You bump into them after every tree. Generally, they are sleeping in the shade (their days are spread between 1% hunting, 1% eating and 98% sleeping after eating or before hunting).

My best images follow…

Big males

The king of the animals, Simba (in Swahili), the head of the pride, the one who eats first (even if he did not hunt, he will eat before all the others et the rest of the pride may not even have a piece of the meal after him).

Big lion

Big lion, male

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