As many as 47 big cats, including 26 lions and 21 leopards, have died during the last two months in Gujarat. These casualties include deaths of Asiatic lions in the recent flash floods that had wreaked havoc in the Gir forest area.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
Thursday, 23 July 2015
NEWSLINK/VIDEO: 'Giant cat' caught on camera prowling city streets putting police on lion alert
There have now been five sighting and cops have been given mobile phone footage showing the giant cat padding its way through a residential neighbourhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Police Chief Edward Flynn confirmed they handed been given a video that showed a large "lion-ish creature" and said it was "theoretically possible" that a wild cat had travelled south.
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Police Chief Edward Flynn confirmed they handed been given a video that showed a large "lion-ish creature" and said it was "theoretically possible" that a wild cat had travelled south.
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NEWSLINK: Motion detection camera captures what could be the long-lost ‘Ourimbah panther’
Captured by a motion detection camera in the dead of night, the image shows a large feline shape walking along a “game trail” in dense bush behind Palmdale in the Ourimbah State Forest.
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NEWSLINK/VIDEO: Big Cat's Release Into The Wild Goes Wrong
A leopard in Central Kenya's Lake Nakuru National Park, who had been put in a cage after making farm animals its prey, almost took a ranger's life in a vicious attack.
The spotted animal would have made the man his lunch if not for the ranger's courageous kick.
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The spotted animal would have made the man his lunch if not for the ranger's courageous kick.
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NEWSLINK: Death of Zimbabwe's Best-Loved Lion Ignites Debate
Zimbabwe’s most well-known and much-photographed black-maned lion, affectionately named Cecil, was killed by sport hunters just outside the nation’s premier wildlife park, Hwange, last week.
Wildlife enthusiasts say Cecil, possibly Hwanges’s largest lion, was a favorite among visitors to the park as he was relaxed around safari vehicles.
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Wildlife enthusiasts say Cecil, possibly Hwanges’s largest lion, was a favorite among visitors to the park as he was relaxed around safari vehicles.
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Tuesday, 21 July 2015
NEWSLINK/VIDEO: Musical lions are a roaring success
A handful of lucky visitors were treated to an impromptu performance by the musical predators during a game drive in South Africa.
The lions had just woke up from an afternoon nap at Etali Safari Lodge, Madikwe.
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The lions had just woke up from an afternoon nap at Etali Safari Lodge, Madikwe.
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ARTICLE: South Africa’s ‘Blood Lions’
South Africa has upwards of 10 000 lions, but those number s conceal a classification system whereby breeders or farms class them as captive, managed and wild. If you look at the real numbers, only about 3000 lions are truly wild, with 7000 others residing on private farms and of those, a large portion are kept in stable-like conditions under terrible conditions.
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