Felids are no longer confined to the four-legged mammalian body. Behold: KITY radio!
This was Jerry’s contribution to Caturday, he wrote:
It’s a Llano, Texas station, and an oldies station I was listening to while driving.
Today we have a whole lot of videos, from the ridiculously cute to the sublimely majestic.
Here’s some cavity-inducing sweetness for you:
Then we have some of the Big Cats first three are from the BigCat Rescue people. The last one is from Kruger National Park.
Best friends: lion and tiger
Don’t turn your back!
Lioness
Well-coordinated chorus of male lions
There’s some good news from Krefield Zoo in Germany, two new Snow Leopards were born, both female.
The Snow Leopard is listed as endangered, the website notes:
As of 2003, the size of the global population was estimated at 4,080 to 6,590 adults, of which fewer than 2,500 individuals may reproduce in the wild.
Here’s a story that is as heart-warming as it is tear-jerking, tigers rescued from a cage get to swim for the first time. They were rescued in New York by International Fund For Animal Welfare (IFAW) and now live at the Safe Haven Rescue Zoo in Nevada. Lily loves it, Carli wants a second opinion.
That should put a smile on everyone’s faces!
Hat-tip: Merilee, Smiley, Tycha Brahe,
Not sure how it works in other countries but in the U.S. giving to almost all animal charities is tax deductible. So it will help you out on taxes and it will make you feel better too.
That stalking behavior is much more playful than aggressive. Baihu will do that to me, “tag” my leg, and run away at full tilt expecting to be chased.
…though, of course, it’s one thing to get tagged by a ten-pound cat, and another to be tagged by a cat that outweighs a linebacker. And at least one of those cats looked more pissed off than playful.
If the cat grew up from kittenhood playing with humans, you’d be no more at risk from injury in such a situation than you’d be in a full-contact human sport. Of course, that’s not exactly a low-risk activity….
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That last batch of peanuts were the wrong sort. Kitteh just discovered the meaning of electrostatic cling and his body language says he didn’t like it.
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Another radio station for you to hunt up:
WINO 89.9 FM in Odessa, New York
Nice video of the roaring lions. Note how actual roaring lions do not sound like the Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie lion, a fact I think most of us know.
I always wondered how MGM actually produced a sound effect for their lion.
Isn’t it just snarling, not roaring?