Category: Big cats
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Natural selection in the act – Life is hard in the bush
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…
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Leopards in South Africa
After presenting you images of many wild animals, here come those we were specially coming to meet in South Africa: Leopards. Young male Leopard in a treeHe was eating an impala up there Young male Leopard in a treeHis name is Matimba and he still hunts with Safari, his mother Lying leopard, yawningImpressive display of…
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South Africa: One hour with the Cheetahs
Shooting a few good images is quite often a matter of time. The following sequence extends over slightly more than an hour (and sometimes, fed with waiting the photographer looks for a different subject like in the last photo of the series) and we only stopped because night was about to come: Cheetah Cheetah Cheetah,marking…
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Lions of South Africa
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)
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Dumb hunters kill one out of seven last females of Amur Leopards
The WWF announced that hunters in Eastern Russia recently killed one female of the critically endangered species of Amur Leopard. The animal was shot and them beaten to death with one blunt object apparently. She was one of the last seven (7) female animals still living of that species. The end is approaching fast for…
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Shocking news: Cheetah attacks BBC reporter
Simon King, BBC presenter of Big Cat Diary, was recently attacked by a cheetah. It is a very unusual behaviour for an animal who tends to be easily afraid by large animals like a human. Read it all on BBC (video here). I am not unhappy that it did not happen to me last time…
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New Leopard species found in Borneo
This is not every day that in the midst of announcements of more disappeared species we learn of the apparition of one of them. These days, the news of a species discovery is flowing through the ranks of nature scientists. The clouded leopard of Borneo is now considered as separate from the the other feline…
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A photographer in Northern India
A photographer is hidden behind the FloFlo pseudo. She went to Northern India in December 2006 and she brought a few interesting phtoos organized as mini-slide-shows. The initial sorting allowed to separate some photograph of animal (wild or not) and snapshots of the Indian daily life (from a great country were colour is present everywhere…
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Eye of the cat
As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.