The cat was out of the bag; and the use of poison gas continued to escalate for the remainder of the war.
The best-known colobus monkey the mantled guereza (also called the Abyssinian black-and-white colobus) has an enormous poof sometimes taking up most of the length of the tail like a big white bottlebrush.
The World's Fastest Cat Video The cheetah the world's fastest land animal can race up to 75 mph for short bursts.
Note that while cheetahs and greyhounds are very very different animals they've independently evolved to have very similar running styles.
This is the natural running style of dogs cats and some ungulates like deer and elk but different than that of horses
while cheetahs and greyhounds are very very different animals they've independently evolved...to clarify...
After the Pronghorn antelope the Blue Wildebeest Lion Springbok Grant's Gazelle Tohomson's Gazelle and even the Quarter horse have all been clocked faster than 43 mph...
They also have a spine like a Cheetah. It would be MOST interesting to time a Saluki for distance
and running style compared to a Cheetah. I think the results would be much more impressive.
The cheetah doesn't do that. The Greyhound is the fastest sprinter but the Saluki wins over a longer course.
Afghans Salukis and Borzois were used to hunt tigers. They hunted as male female pairs. The female moved in
and as the tiger lunged exposing its jugular the male attacked d
#Scan Reveals If Your Civet Poo Coffee Really Comes From Civet Poo When you pay $150 to $230 for a pound of exotic coffee you want to know it's the real deal.
-even if you were using pure feral cat cream which is awesome. What to know how awesome?
Go milk some feral cats (the more feral the better) to learn from experience that delight that can be learned
More importantly have milked you a feral cat yet? Once you do post picture of the bliss that follows aquiring such a delightful cream u
That is why lions (and every other carnivore on the planet) do just fine. You are what you eat and
They're just a cabal making fat-cat bucks looking to protect their income of major dough.
When it infects a rat its makes its host abnormally unafraid of cat urine upping the rodent's chances of getting eaten by a cat
On the bright side for pet lovers cat ownership doesn't seem to be a predictor of infection.
#A History Of Daring Red panda Escapesthe red panda looks like a fluffy raccoon-cat frolics in the snow like an arctic otter
I would call a lion hunting a gazelle evil. It's merely another aspect of nature. dsdoan You point is taken well in the same way of their exist a ying
#Many retired men enjoy tinkering in the garage to fill the hours working on an old Jaguar XKSS say
it's nothing famous like the giant panda or Amur leopard but instead the forest coconut native to Madagascar.
I'd like to see you escape a cheetah by climbing a rock face. These dudes are master climbers.
Literally every insectivorous animal in the northeast--songbirds carnivorous birds (hawks owls) opossums foxes cats shrews snakes spiders and even dogs--will gorge on cicadas.
and liquid oxygen in his XR-5k18 rocket engine powering its Lynx suborbital spaceplane will emit much less in the way of aromatic hydrocarbons than traditional kerosene-based rocket fuel.
Now imagine how we transformed the dreaded tiger and the ferocious lion by culling the most dangerous maneaters from their gene pool for thousands upon thousands of years.
So my guess is today's predators are a pale shadow of their ancient kin
if there's a caliber for killing lion elephant and cape buffalo there's one for Ms. Piggy.
P. S. Stay tuned for next time's discussion about imaging cats through a layers of milk another wonder of light diffusion.
Cats Are Particular About What They Pee Oncats and many other mammals like to pee on things.
A new very important study in the Journal of Zoology found that the way cats--specifically the European wildcat--mark is intentional and particular.
Felis silvestris the European wildcat looks like a slightly larger and stockier version of a housecat. Its taxonomical separation from the housecat is complicated by the fact that wildcats
and housecats interbreed often.)Wildcats are highly territorial and mark their territory by urinating and leaving strategic poops all around their areas.
When urine spraying a wildcat raises up its tail and ejects backwards a spray of urine against a prominent object of its surrounding environment says the new study.
But as it turns out wildcats look for specific kinds of trees and plants to mark based on how well those plants natural characteristics will spread the scent of the mark.
It was assumed that cats merely mark large objects--marking the biggest tree or biggest rock for example--but that's not the case.
European wildcats favor the juniper tree not choosing it for its size but selecting it over larger nearby non-juniper trees.
and the cat chooses the juniper because the study suggests its natural oils will mesh with the cat's scent to make the mark more powerful than the mark is alone.
The study says that therefore wildcats select those plants which could enhance the olfactory effectiveness of the mark.
It's not totally clear how chemically scent marks interact with the volatile organic compounds in the juniper
but it is clear that the cats choose those more than other plants. Cats: they don't just pee anywhere.
Read the whole study here (subscription required. Pee-snickery wild kitty purrr purrr pur! Just goes to show that cats
and other animals have great intelligence and instincts! --Sir William the Cat of www. indefenseofcats. comi'm almost certain one of mine is peeing on towels
and may peed on my guitar. It bothers me so much. It may be why I don't play with the guitar anymore e
Spanky Thomas Skipper Porkchop Mohammid Elvis Sandi Bela Yankee Fergie Murphy Limburger and some 300 other dogs and cats that reside at the company's Palatability Assessment Resource
Cats and dogs are not grain eaters by choice Moeller is saying. So our task is to find ways to entice them to eat enough for it to be nutritionally sufficient.
For cats especially Moeller says change is often more difficult than monotony. Sigh this article is harolding better kibble based off more meat products.
and wheat grainsã¢Â# and that cats and dogs are not grain eaters. âÂ# I think it is worth noting that there are plenty of pet foods available that are grain-free that do not require tricks to âÂ#Âoeentice pets to eat enough for it to be nutritionally sufficient.
and some 300 other dogs and cats came from before they'resided'in a lab cage at this facility
I can change my cats'food any time I want as long as the new stuff costs more than the old stuff.
and cats that relate to or even resemble religious figures like Prophets (in the Bible or in the Quran).
and cats that relate to or even resemble religious figures like Prophets (in the Bible or in the Quran).
Just watched a cool show on netflix about big cats. turns out lions and tigers two obviously distinct species on the outside are incredibly similar on the inside.
In fact close enough to still breed with each other. Evolution doesn't tell us that a new species is born in a generation it's gradual.
still have the genetic traits of the sabertooth and have seen in their evolution rise of the resurgent sabertooth.
That one in particular will always be studied for exploitation. You'd think that if we created an environment that was designed to change growing in difficulty over like ten generations from adaptation to the new demands then demand more...
Going from lion or tiger stock would be faster-maybe. Inherent will to adapt vs dominance and satisfaction.
Gotta take their satisfaction away by convincing them there's something the cat needs to do but a lion for instance if male it only gets off it's butt
if it thinks it needs to eat fight mate. or crap. It's happy making the females hunt
and kill but it leads to a relatively small male population which kills diversity by keeping a small number of traits active in the whole collective to be passed on.
Any feline any canid any mustelid (weasel) any procyonid (raccoon) any non-bonkers primate (baboons which are completely terrifying are exempt.
Look at my pet kinkajou my pet genet my pet fennec fox my pet ocelot. And then on the videos of cute furry animals in the wild you'll see the comments:
and animals that would prefer to murder you than let you pat them on the head (big cats bears baboons) are outlawed all.
Class 3 includes venomous reptiles and all species of bear big cat and wolf. All three classes are legal!
In fact the only thing that separates Class 3 animals which are banned pretty much everywhere else is that a letter is sent to the hopeful leopard-owner's neighbors.
If 25 or more neighbors respond with a letter saying they are interested not in having a leopard on the block the leopard is allowed not.
What's your leopard's name? Even more insane is that Indiana provides no law preventing you from owning an endangered species. Here's
Yet Mainers seem mostly uninterested in owning pet jaguarundis at least in comparison with Hoosiers. Foxes are only legal in a handful of states.
An ordinary house cat is more than enough for me. Also I'm not comfortable with the idea of even domesticated exotic animals.
if it eats your cat. It seems weird to me to genetically engineer an animal to love us...
Their behavior is roughly comparable to cats: they keep themselves clean but don't have much personality or a complex behavioral repertoire and
Hmmm I know people who own Bobcats here in Texas . And have seen first hand how these animals will cuddle
My friends Bobcat even plays with his dog lol! Not all animals from the wild will try to bite your face off!@
and I certainly don't want my neighbor to have a wildcat as a pet! Help Stop Fox and Coyote Hunt Pens.
and cats we have now! To me foxes belong free in the wild so we need to help protect them and their natural habitats.
-Author Janette of the new poem Beloved Cat: Once Mortal enemy Now Immortal Friend at www. indefenseofcats. com/cat-book. html#Belovedcatpoemam I really the ONLY reader who was reminded of Kevin & Kell (a web comic) while reading this article?!?
When tame wild animals grow up they retain the characteristics of their wild counterparts and not those of a domesticated pet.
That means if you want to hunt deer elk moose antelope ducks geese cougars and now wolves you have to buy a permit.
whether the top predator is wolves lions or sharks). But there's a problem: the wolves are in trouble.
and wild mango wood all have this smell. plã Âaeâ this means a bloody smell that attracts tigers.
For example in villages in which residents forage primarily it's important not to bring home animals that have the smell that attracts tigers.
Scientists equipped agoutis common rainforest rodents and ocelots their feline predators with radio collars and tracked them 24/7 via an automated telemetry system on Barro Colorado Island.
Ocelots were most active at night. Agoutis eat tree seeds. Ocelots eat agoutis said Patrick Jansen research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and assistant professor at Wageningen University.
Where food is hard to find agoutis spend more time foraging and are more likely to be eaten by an ocelot.
To determine when it was dangerous for agoutis to be active scientists first recorded daily activity patterns of agoutis as well as ocelots.
Camera traps placed across the island photographed all animals that passed in front of the lens and recorded the time.
but few ocelots prowled the island. Around sunset as agoutis sought the shelter of their burrows the ratio of ocelots to agoutis jumped
and then droped again around sunrise. Radio signals produced by an animal's transmitter collar were picked simultaneously up by radio towers around the island.
Seventeen of 19 dead agoutis found in the study were killed by ocelots. Most kills happened just before sunrise and just after sunset
and were more likely to get killed by an ocelot. We knew that hungry animals tend to take more risks said Jansen.
Once an ocelot kills an agouti the agouti can no longer eat its food reserves Jansen said.
#Cat domestication traced to Chinese farmers 5, 300 years agofive-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of Quanhucun a forthcoming study
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed. At least three different lines of scientific inquiry allow us to tell a story about cat domestication that is reminiscent of the old'house that Jack built'nursery rhyme said study co-author Fiona Marshall Phd a professor of archaeology in Arts
& Sciences at Washington University in St louis. Our data suggest that cats were attracted to ancient farming villages by small animals such as rodents that were living on the grain that the farmers grew ate
and stored. Set for early online publication in PNAS during the week of Dec 16 the study provides the first direct evidence for the processes of cat domestication.
Results of this study show that the village of Quanhucun was a source of food for the cats 5300 years ago
and the relationship between humans and cats was commensal or advantageous for the cats Marshall said.
Even if these cats were domesticated not yet our evidence confirms that they lived in close proximity to farmers
and that the relationship had mutual benefits. Cat remains rarely are found in ancient archaeological sites
and little is known about how they were domesticated. Cats were thought to have first been domesticated in ancient Egypt where they were kept some 4000 years ago
but more recent research suggests close relations with humans may have occurred much earlier including the discovery of a wild cat buried with a human nearly 10000 years ago in Cyprus
. While it often has been argued that cats were attracted to rodents and other food in early farming villages and domesticated themselves there has been little evidence for this theory.
The evidence for this study is derived from research in China led by Yaowu Hu and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Hu and his team analyzed eight bones from at least two cats excavated from the site.
Using radiocarbon dating and isotopic analyses of carbon and nitrogen traces in the bones of cats dogs deer
and other wildlife unearthed near Quanhucan the research team demonstrated how a breed of once-wild cats carved a niche for themselves in a society that thrived on the widespread cultivation of the grain millet.
Carbon isotopes indicate that rodents domestic dogs and pigs from the ancient village were eating millet
Carbon and nitrogen isotopes show that cats were preying on animals that lived on farmed millet probably rodents.
Other clues gleaned from the Quanhucun food web suggest the relationship between cats and humans had begun to grow closer.
One of the cats was aged showing that it survived well in the village. Another ate fewer animals and more millet than expected suggesting that it scavenged human food
Recent DNA studies suggest that most of the estimated 600 million domestic cats now living around the globe are descendants most directly of the Near Eastern Wildcat one of the five Felis sylvestris lybica wildcat subspecies
whether the cats found at Quanhucun are descendants of the Near Eastern Wildcat a subspecies not native to the area.
If the Quanhucun cats turn out to be close descendents of the Near Eastern strain it would suggest they were domesticated elsewhere
whether these cats came to China from the Near east whether they interbred with Chinese wildcat species
or even whether cats from China played a previously unsuspected role in domestication Marshall said.
This question is now being pursued by researchers based in China and in France. Story Source:
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and flee lions sabre-tooth cats and hunting hyenas that would run down their prey. The other fossils they found included teeth which are taller than their ancestors
Fossil evidence shows a cougar-sized relative of the fossa that only became extinct several thousand years ago likely preyed on lemurs as well she said.
and some fossil bones have evidence of damage consistent with the bite of saber-toothed cats.
and the African wild dog and African lion have vanished from the Sahara. Other species have fared only slightly better:
the leopard from 97 percent and the Saharan cheetah from 90. Only the Nubian ibex still inhabits most of its historical range
which harbors most of the world's 200 or so remaining wild addax and one of a handful of surviving populations of dama gazelle and Saharan cheetah.
and large carnivores such as cheetahs or leopards helping to reduce unwarranted killing of endangered species in South africa.
Implications for Cheetah Conservation researchers from the University's School of Anthropology and Conservation studied the effect guarding dogs have on the protection of farm animals across South africa.
The team also investigated the tolerance farmers have towards cheetahs roaming their land when they have a guarding dog present.
They found that farmers were noticeably more tolerant of predators resulting in a greater prevalence of cheetahs
'This research has shown for the first time that livestock guarding dogs can successfully be used in South africa to protect livestock from attack by predators as large as leopards or small as jackals.'
cats dogs or other animals; insect bites or stings; foods; and medications. Of the 79300 VITAL participants who filled out the questionnaires more than 66000 individuals were selected after eliminating those who had a prior history of malignancies other than non-melanoma skin cancers and missing information on baseline cancer history.
There was also an increased risk of plasma-cell neoplasms for participants who reported a history of allergies to cats dogs or other animals.
The drawings depict an assemblage of animals including armadillos deer large cats birds and reptiles as well as humanlike figures and geometric symbols.
#Elusive bay cat caught on camerathe world's least known cat has been caught on camera in a previously unsurveyed rainforest by scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Imperial College London.
Until now the bay cat (Pardofelis badia) had been recorded on camera traps just a handful of times in its Borneo forest home
But more images of this animal have been captured than ever before together with evidence of four other wild cat species in a heavily logged area of forest where they were expected not to thrive.
--which has so far been reported to have all five species including the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) and marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata).
and birds including some of the most charismatic species in existence like tigers. Many of these species are exceedingly good at spotting
For example I've seen the clouded leopard just twice in three years of fieldwork whilst my cameras recorded 14 video sequences of this enigmatic cat in just eight months.
All five cat species mentioned are charismatic and important components of the forest ecosystems and predators of a wide range of other animals.
They are threatened also highly: four of the five species are listed as threatened with global extinction on the IUCN Red List.
Almost nothing is known about the habits of the mysterious bay cat but it is thought to be at risk of extinction due to widespread loss of its habitat on Borneo.
Dr Robert Ewers from the Department of Life sciences at Imperial College London leads the SAFE tropical forest conservation project in Borneo where the bay cats were seen.
We were surprised completely to see so many bay cats at these sites in Borneo where natural forests have been logged so heavily for the timber trade.
but we now know this land can be home for many endangered species. Our study today shows solid evidence that even large carnivores such as these magnificent bay cats can survive in commercially logged forests Dr Ewers added.
ZSL and Imperial College London conservationists will continue to study the effects of logging on wildlife populations looking more broadly than just the highly charismatic cats towards other mammal species both large and small.
#King of beasts losing ground in Ugandas paradiseconservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of St andrews warn that Uganda's African lions--a mainstay of the country's tourism industry
and a symbol of Africa--are on the verge of disappearing from the country's national parks. According to the results of a recent survey African lions in Uganda have decreased by more than 30 percent over the past 10 years in some areas of the country mostly the result of poisoning by local cattle
The downward trend in lion numbers has concerned conservationists about the species'long-term chances in the country often described as the Pearl of Africa for its natural wonders.
Edward Okot Omoya Tutilo Mudumba Paul Mulondo and Andrew J. Plumptre from WCS and Stephen T. Buckland of the University of St andrews. African lions are a vital component
and population distribution of lions and spotted hyenas in Uganda's three major conservation areas conducted by researchers between November 2008 and November 2009.
Previous survey methods used to count lions have included counting roars identifying individual cats and mark-recapture methods
Overall the call station surveys attracted a total of 66 lions 176 spotted hyenas and seven leopards.
Using the data of animals observed the analysis generated an estimated lion population of 408 animals in the three main strongholds for lions in Uganda nearly two hundred fewer lions than estimates made in 2000-2002 (a statistical
) In Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area estimated lion numbers have decreased from 206 to 144 over the past decade (a 30 percent drop.
In Murchison Falls Conservation Area the team estimates a nearly 60 percent drop (from 324 to 132 lions in the past decade.
Only in Kidepo Valley National park did the researchers detect an increase in estimated lion numbers (climbing from 58 to 132.
Lions are the species tourists most want to see in Uganda's savannas according to research by WCS.
if they couldn't see lions and if they did visit they would want to pay less for the experience.
The crisis in lion conservation in Uganda reflects the status of the species across Africa where lion populations have dropped by 30 percent over the past two decades as a result of illegal killing and the loss of both habitat and prey.
The most recent estimate of Africa's total lion population is approximately 32000 animals. A group study led by WCS estimated that 42 percent of major lion populations are in decline.
The species is nearly extinct in West and Central africa. The species is listed as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
and tigers can coexist are emerging in rural Nepal where the government has committed to doubling populations of the critically endangered big cat by 2022.
when Nepalese villagers are empowered to make some local land management decisions the resulting landscape changes can benefit both people and tigers.
Few wildlife species face more potential conflicts with humankind than tigers which require large areas for hunting
Tiger populations have plummeted from an estimated 100000 worldwide at the beginning of the 20th century to perhaps as few as 3000 remaining in the wild.
Carter studies the interactions between humans and tigers in Nepal's Chitwan National park and its environs.
In the latest research Carter and his colleagues showed that in areas near the national park border where local people were permitted to harvest some of the natural resources they needed such as timber and grass the amount of tigers'preferred type of habitat increased.
Within the park where local resource harvests are prohibited the amount of highly suitable habitat for tigers declined--perhaps due to illegal harvests.
Chitwan National park was established in 1973 to protect tigers and other keystones of the area's biodiversity but it has had significant costs for people living in the area.
and management of the buffer zones affected tigers the researchers used camera traps--motion-sensitive cameras mounted along animal trails--that snapped photos of 17 different adult tigers at sites
By superimposing their photographic evidence of tiger movements onto the land cover maps the researchers showed that tigers have a distinct preference for grasslands near water
That's probably because the grasslands and water attract animals for tigers to prey on the grasses conceal them
and the connected patches of habitat accommodate the big cats'need for relatively large home territories. The researchers used satellite photos taken between 1989 and 2009 to track changes in land cover inside
and outside the park and compare it to the habitat that tigers prefer. Throughout that 20-year span the park offered more habitat suitable for tigers than the buffer lands did.
But the amount of good tiger habitat in the park declined between 1999 and 2009.
Meanwhile tiger habitat outside the park took a turn for the better. From 1989 to 1999 tiger habitat suitability outside the park was relatively constant.
But from 1999 to 2009 the suitability of tiger habitat increased in the area between human settlements and the park boundary.
The tiger habitat gains happened after the buffer zone was created and local people gained some control over land uses outside the park the researchers noted.
In Nepal we're finding that there is this middle ground where you can have people using the land
and still not only keep land from degrading but can improve habitat quality said Carter. Policies in Chitwan's buffer zone such as prohibiting livestock from freely grazing in the forests and community-based forest management improved habitat quality.
In July 2013 the Nepalese government announced the nation's tiger population had jumped 63%in four years with an estimated 198 tigers now living in the wild--many of them in
Park managers are doing a tremendous job of conserving tigers and their habitat in the face of relentless pressure from the human population agreed Carter who has worked in the area since 2008.
As Nepal and other countries work to pull tigers back from the brink of extinction the study provides a relatively straightforward way to measure how humans affect endangered animals'habitat across space
The next step is to model how tiger habitat and human livelihood strategies will interact and change in the future under different conservation policy scenarios.
Bhim Gurung of the Nepal Tiger Trust in Chitwan; and Jhamak Karki of Nepal's Department of National parks and Wildlife Conservation.
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