Topic 24 of 58: The Big Cats
Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (17:57) |
Wolf (wolf)
3 Sumatran Tiger Cubs born in a zoo recently. Let's talk about the big cats!
13 responses total.
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Response 1 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (18:00) * 1 lines
Ligers and tigons and panthers and Nittany Lions?!
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Response 2 of 13: Wolf (wolf) * Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (20:09) * 1 lines
i love the big cats. did most of my science (biology) reports on the cheetah. that cat is fascinating.
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Response 3 of 13: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (13:07) * 1 lines
And FAST!
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Response 4 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 22, 2000 (18:57) * 10 lines
Another Cell Phone-Related Danger
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Mexican man escaped with only
minor injuries after a lion attacked him as he tried to retrieve a cell phone in
the creature's cage, the Reforma daily newspaper said on Tuesday.
Guillermo Orozco received injuries to his chest, back and face when he
entered the cage of ``Zeus'' at an amusement park in Pachuca in the central
Mexican state of Hidalgo. But his life was not in danger, the paper said.
Reforma said the Pachuca resident had been drinking and made a wager with
a friend that he could recover his phone before climbing into the cage.
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Response 5 of 13: Maggie (sociolingo) * Sat, Aug 26, 2000 (03:34) * 6 lines
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000826/1/aha1c.html
25-7-2000
LONDON (Reuters) - Welsh boy Joshua Hopkins was nursing cuts and scratches on Saturday after a big cat, believed to be a wild leopard, attacked him in a field near his home, police said overnight. Gwent police spokesman Adrian Herne said Joshua, 11, was clawed and bitten after being mauled as he played in long grass in Trellech, South Wales. "He had long claw scratches to his face and injuries to his head after the encounter with the animal," a police spokesman said. Joshua was shaken but not seriously injured and managed to run home, Herne said. "The animal had blood on its jaws and its breath smelled as if had just eaten something like a rabbit," Joshua was quoted as saying in The Mirror.
"Then it got my head in its jaws and bit me. I was terrified and thought it was going to kill me." Gwent police called in wildlife expert Danny Nineham, who examined Joshua's injuries and said the cat was most likely an immature black leopard, or panther. Police and local people searched the area on foot and a helicopter with thermal imaging equipment was also brought in but was unable to trace its movements. Officers warned residents in the rural area to be cautious and immediately report any sightings. Rumours have abounded for years about feral big cats loose in various areas of Britain, with theories as to where they came from including escapes from private zoos and owners freeing pets after they grew too large to handle. Some experts believe there could be at least 30 big cats in sparsely populated areas across the country. Until now, there have been no reports of anyone being attacked.
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Response 6 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jun 14, 2001 (19:40) * 27 lines
From Maggie
Hunt for golf course puma
By Paul Pickett
Police and the RSPCA are combing Buckinghamshire today for a puma seen
prowling across the green by golfers.
Animal experts have studied the plastercast of a pawprint left by the animal on the
Wycombe Heights golf course and have confirmed it is that of a young puma.
The RSPCA says the young animal could have been bred in the countryside near
the course, from animals released illegally in the area.
Golfers alerted police yesterday after seeing the animal watching them as they
teed-off. Local animal handler Trevor Smith, who tried to capture the puma, said:
"I think most of the golfers thought I was joking when I told them I was looking for
a puma. But one or two gathered up their balls pretty quickly when they realised I
was serious."
Today RSPCA officers and the police will widen the search around the golf course
in High Wycombe.
More... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010516/27/bqa6i.html
Are you missing any neighbors Maggie?
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Response 7 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jun 14, 2001 (19:44) * 1 lines
Ok, Maggie, you know how to post in Spring. You wull not make any friends by making me do it for you! how many BIG CATS do you have running wild in Britain?
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Response 8 of 13: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Jun 14, 2001 (20:37) * 3 lines
wow!
i just heard a story on the news (but didn't get to finish hearing it out--kids) but someone was trying to figure out if a scream they heard was a child or a wildcat.
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Response 9 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Jun 14, 2001 (23:35) * 1 lines
Where, Wolfie? Ihave never heard anything other than a domestic cat. It must be quite a sound. Blood-chilling!
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Response 10 of 13: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Jun 16, 2001 (10:06) * 1 lines
i don't remember but i think it was within a 50 mile radius. we have wildcats in the area. haven't heard another thing about it though.
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Response 11 of 13: Rob Glennie (AotearoaKiwi) * Thu, Aug 8, 2002 (02:29) * 6 lines
Hi all
At Orana Park Wildlife Reserve, there is two tigers, a host of lions, and a growing family of cheetahs. I like the cheetahs the most since they are the most catlike of them all, and they go like bullets. I spent a few days on work experience with them in 1999 and my favourite part was the Cheetah Chase, where a piece of meat is dragged over a 100 metre stretch at about 30-40mph, and the cheetah chases it, for dinner. I was helping staff with it on work experience and it was a thrill watching them approach at up to 65kmh. I stayed away from the lions reserve because they kept charging the mesh and were in an aggressive mood. Despite their reputation, the tigers were seemingly the most placid. You could lean on the fence about 5 metres from their patch and just quietly watch them. Neither seemed to mind at all. Far from it however was an incident a few years before when a mother was not watching her young son, and he climbed the railing. Before you could count to 5 both tigers had charged the mesh fence, and
nly because the mesh fence stopped, did we not have a preventable death. I merely shook my head and thought "You DICKWAD!!! Incidents like that get people hurt." I should have told the mother what I thought because she merely grabbed his hand and yanked him out (she was closer than I).
Rob
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Response 12 of 13: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Aug 8, 2002 (18:23) * 3 lines
cheetahs were always my fave and then the black panthers.
parents need to instruct their children how to behave at zoos. i've seen so many kids harass the animals and their parents do nothing. of course it's boring when the animals are just laying there but that's what they do. they're not there to entertain the kids!
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Response 13 of 13: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Dec 6, 2005 (18:48) * 31 lines
Researchers to trap mysterious cat-fox animal
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Environmental researchers are
preparing to capture what they call a new, mysterious species of
carnivore on Borneo, the first such discovery on the wildlife-rich
Indonesian island in over a century.
Swiss-based environmental group WWF said on Monday its researchers
photographed the strange animal, which looks like a cross between a cat
and a fox, in the dense, central mountainous rainforests of Borneo.
"This could be the first time in more than a century that a new
carnivore has been discovered on the island," said the WWF in a
statement.
The mammal, slightly larger than a cat with red fur and a long tail,
was photographed twice by a camera trap at night.
Locals and wildlife experts who viewed photographs of the animal,
which has very small ears and large hind legs, said they had never seen
such a creature before and were convinced that it was a new species,
WWF said.
Researchers hope to confirm the discovery by setting cage traps to
catch a live specimen, but warn that Indonesian government plans to
clear the rainforest to create the world's largest palm oil plantation
may interfere with plans, WWF said.
More:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/12/06/indonesia.new.species.reut/index.html
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