The San Diego Zoo is welcoming the first ever critically endangered Amur leopard cubs born at the zoo. WARNING: They’re adorable. https://t.co/ZS8yXHGerx pic.twitter.com/MuAhb6tMbZ — ABC News (@ABC) June 1, 2018
Cats
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Aspirational Lion
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats
Friday Catblogging: 7 Sounds Cats Make and What They Mean
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats
Friday Catbloging: Tiger & Toy
by JOHN ADAMS •
Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Jaguars
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nadia Drake observes that The Jaguar Is Made for the Age of Humans (“A writer comes face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle and left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss”): The Ese’Eja, indigenous to this area of Peru, say that the jaguar only shows himself to…
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Pepper the JFK Airport Cat
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Cats, Conservation, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Can Humans and Lions Get Along?
by JOHN ADAMS •
“Lions are really causing us havoc,” laments an African pastoralist in Nani Walker and Alan Toth’s short documentary, Living with Lions. The film chronicles the conflict between lions and humans in Laikipia County, Kenya, where drought and urbanization have pushed people and wildlife into closer contact. Conservationists attempt to mitigate the encounters, which often begin…
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Chicago’s Puff The Magic Kitty
by JOHN ADAMS •
From Chicago, it’s Puff the Magic Kitty: Puff comin’ yo. pic.twitter.com/n5WsCPdEmB — A Cat Named Bitches (@BitchestheCat) April 19, 2018 (@PuffMagicKitty: “Rescued from a feral colony. New money. Puff puff cat. From a land called Chi-City. Embedded in the #purrsistance with @lbkiddoshow and @Bitchesthecat.”)
Cats, Crime
Friday Catblogging: Former State Trooper Accused of Harassing People, Killing Cats
by JOHN ADAMS •
A sad story today, about a former state trooper accused of killing cats and using the dead animals to harass a former neighbor: PORTAGE, Wis. — A retired Wisconsin state trooper is accused of killing neighborhood cats that were stalking his bird feeder and dumping the carcasses in the yard of a former neighbor. Portage…