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nocturnal-stims · 11 months
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A tiger has a nice day.
🐅 Big Cat Recue on IG
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sick-sad-little-world · 6 months
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📦BIG CATS like boxes, too!📦
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bigcatrescue · 1 year
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Manny Jaguar LOVES his hanging out in his cool refreshing pool on hot days in Florida.
His pool was made possible by tax-deductible donations from friends like you. THANK YOU!
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canidsanimalcorner · 2 years
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It’s World Lion Day!
So let’s talk about the second largest cat in the world!!
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[Image description: A close up image of a lioness looking at the camera.] 
(Image from Smithsonian)
Basic Stats These huge cats grow to lengths of 2.7 meters (9ft) (females) and 3 meters (10ft) (males). They weigh up to 179 kg (395 lbs) (females) and 250 kg (55 lbs) (males). 
Most lions live on the open savanna although they also have habitats in dry forests. Many live in Africa but there are Asiatic lions who make their homes in India. 
In zoos, lions may live on into their early 20s. In the wild, lionesses can live up to 16 years but it is rare that a male will live past 12 years of age.
Prides and Social Structure Lions are the most social felines in the world, residing in big family groups called prides. In Kruger National Park, there lives one of the largest prides in Africa, 26 lions-strong! 
Prides are made up of related females. There may be as many as 40 individuals (adults, sub-adults, and cubs) including one or more resident males. The more prey available, the larger these families grow.
Lionesses will typically remain in their mothers’ prides for life so long as food scarcity does not drive them out. Young males are forced to leave at around 2-4 years of age (when they are capable enough to compete with dominant males.) These wanderers will create coalitions, commonly with brothers and cousins, and search for a pride to take over. 
The first order of business during a take over is to kill all cubs from the previous male’s lineage. The males do not want to expend energy ensuring that another lion’s genes will be passed on. Another reason for infanticide is that female lions will not be receptive to mating while they are nursing a litter so killing the cubs enables procreation of the new bloodline. You can read more about infanticide by male and female lions (yes, there are cases where even a mother will kill her own child for evolutionary advantage/survival) here.
Males take up the defensive roles in the pride while females focus on hunting. Both lions and lionesses mark their territories by roaring and scent marking with urine. 
Hunting Tactics Lions have smaller hearts and lungs that are not built for running fast; they reach a maximum speed of 80 kph (50 mph) that they can only maintain for short bursts. This means that lions rely on ambush, camouflage, and tactics. They do their best work hunting as a team and going by the cover of darkness at night.
When they hunt, lions target the weak and sick--the slowest of the herd. They will circle the herd from different angles, splitting the group so they can get an animal alone.  
Take a look at this video to get an insight on how these big cats hunt together. Bear in mind that it is older (2011) so it looks a bit tacky, but the information is great!
Bite-sized Facts! 
A lion may eat 34 kg (75 lbs) of meat at once.
When cubs are about 5 weeks old, they leave the den and start learning how to hunt.
Lions sleep and rest about 20 hours a day, mainly during the hottest points of the day.
A lion’s roar can be heard up to 8 km (5 mi) away.
Without their coats, lion and tiger bodies are so similar that it takes an expert to tell them apart.
Lions primarily eat large animals that weigh from 45 to 453 kg (100-1,000 lbs)
Lions steal kills from hyenas, leopards, and other predators.
Conservation Status, Efforts, and What You Can Do!
Lions’ conservation status is vulnerable so we need to work hard to protect them from extinction! They are the top predators in their environment which means they play a crucial role in maintaining a healthy balance of population among animals. This balance even effects the wellbeing of the grasslands and forests themselves! 
If you want to help monetarily, you can donate to African Parks. They focus on reintroduction of lions into habitats where they went locally extinct and increasing the lions’ range. They remove snares, fence parks for the animals’ safety, and monitor the wildlife to prevent poaching. 
You can also donate to Big Cat Rescue directly to save not only lions but other big cats!
Now let’s talk about what we can do in our every day lives to help!
Never purchase any souvenirs or products made from lion parts!
Use social media as a platform to reach others and inform them about why conservation is important!
Shop Amazon Smile for Big Cat Rescue and help their cause at no cost to you each time you make an amazon purchase (their site has instructions on how to utilize this amazing conservation tool!)
To help all the wildlife, and the planet, recycle, buy in bulk, try composting, and minimize your carbon footprint. You can also look into ecobricking! 
Explore! Here are some videos and documentaries that will allow you to learn more about lions (or just see some awesome moments!) This list includes a documentary from Curiosity Stream which requires a subscription (absolutely worth it if you love animals and nature), but everything else is free to watch! I have viewed all of these myself and believe them to be accurate and of good quality. Not to mention I had a blast watching them. So kick back with some snacks and watch these big cats!
1. Lions 101 - Nat Geo Wild 2. The Secret Lives of Big Cats - Curiosity Stream 3. Lion Fatally Cripples Hyena  4. Hyena Attacks Lion & Pays the Price 
sources (if not otherwise linked in this post):
-Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
-Amazing Animals: Lions by Valerie Bodden
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jegkunnegodtdinmor · 2 years
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Meowing is over, its time to Roar
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Look at this big boy! He's as large as a big German Shepard and a new daddy.
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krissiefox · 2 months
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Turpentine Creek is a big cat rescue organization on the outskirts of Eureka Springs. There's many ways to help support them - you can take a guided tour to learn about the animals living there, visit their gift shop, and they have on site lodging with  bungalows and "glamping" tents. These areas also include a nice hot tub. A great place to stay for a weekend getaway and a good cause to support. <3 They even have a tumblr page, as I just discovered! https://www.tumblr.com/turpentinecreek
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brighteyedspitz · 2 years
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check out the whiskers on this dude we have at work rn
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bonefall · 1 day
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When Thunder stays with Clear Sky for a while, does Clear ever insist on referring to him as Thunder Sky?
Towards the end yes, as the final detail to Thunder Storm that Clear Sky doesn't love him. He wants to ERASE him.
If Clear Sky recognizes he's made a mistake in casting Bright Storm away with their child, he's incapable of seeing it was wrong because it was cruel. He wants what he realizes he threw away, because he now sees it has value. He wants to own his oldest son the way he wants to own the entire forest-- as a reflection of his greatness.
Anything that makes Clear Sky uncomfortable about Thunder Storm has to be sanded down. The assertiveness was the first thing, he feels insecure when he's challenged, the child must learn to follow before he may learn to lead.
The second is that leg, presenting a prosthetic as a gift (that he isnt allowed to refuse), because he can't have been wrong about the choice that killed his younger brother-- here is a SOLUTION that simply didn't exist before! Behold how resourceful and wealthy his cats are, compared to your old group. We've fixed you.
(This prosthetic is a clunky piece of shit that is annoying to strap on every day, gets in the way and makes a ton of noise, and itches like hell, but the change in Clear's demeanor is immediate if Thunder doesn't wear it.)
But somehow, Thunder Storm was willing to take all of that. In hindsight, it bothers him that the tipping point wasn't the other two things.
Bright Storm gave her son her own last name. When Clear Sky sent them away and the Mountain Cats permanently split, it was pointed. "My only survivor is named for myself." SHE would raise him, alone.
Bright Storm herself slowly seemed to lose sight of the meaning, encouraging him to understand his father's good aspects, but in the meanwhile it took on a new meaning to Thunder. His mother raised him. He found a father in Shaded Flower. He grew up next to Lightning Cry and Acorn Swoop. Thunder Storm means this. It's the person he made himself, and the love they've all put into him.
Thunder SKY is just another monument to Clear Sky, stripping away the life he lived without him. And WHY? For ego? For comfort?
"What am I letting him DO to me?!"
It wasn't the final STRAW, but it was the tipping point. Once Thunder Storm had this realization, the minute he was not going to budge on something, that confrontation was inevitable. The blowout fight was making reservations.
Sunlit Frost is still the breaking point, the injury from his burn going sour, but I'm going to emphasize the way that Clear Sky only called that meeting in the first place as an abuse game. Thunder Storm knew it was coming-- but it still sickens him that it was something THIS monstrous.
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burythecarnival · 1 year
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this is important: cicero is super handsome.
he is a thug from the streets of dallas (hence his beat-up face & cauliflower ear) but, he was flown out to PDX to live happily with me forever 🥰 he is fiv+ but is nothing but gentle with my five other kitties. just remember, even if an animal looks broken, it only takes a loving home to make them whole 🖤❤
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bisexualhobgadling · 11 months
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realized that Hob is the calming dog to Dream’s anxious cheetah 😭
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Critically endangered Florida panther - rescued and rehabilitated.
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sick-sad-little-world · 7 months
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🍂🎃 Big Cats VS Spice 🎃🍂
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bigcatrescue · 1 year
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Aria Tiger and her Pumpkin
THANK YOU, to everyone who donated to purchase pumpkins for the cats.
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conspiring-limabean · 24 days
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sometimes I get a sudden and violent craving for the minecraft server I played when I was 12 as if I could log on and play it whenever I want but girl that was over a decade ago...
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sylvies-kablooie · 2 months
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feel like we underutilize the concept of alioth in the loki fandom... he should be playing fetch and rolling over for belly rubs with tree loki. let alioth take a shift guarding the end of time thing so loki can go get up to some mischief. in modern aus he should be sylvie's massive dog that she takes for walks to scare the neighbors. or, if you into a more lizard-y interpretation, alioth is her komodo dragon that she keeps in her apartment's bathtub. maybe he's the pet reptile she lets run up her arm. you see what i'm going for here?
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