4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 6, 2010
Tonight’s premiere episode, Big Cat Odyssey , follows lions and leopards through Africa’s harshest climatic extremes. An entire lion pride battles a large buffalo to down the beast. Leopards creep from the bushes to hunt and retreat into the trees before falling prey to larger killers. Big Cat Week starts tonight!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
They have also been known as Lion Baboons and Bleeding-heart Baboons, due respectively to the males’ lion-like cape and tail, and the bare patch of red skin on both sex’s chests. Gelada communications include intense staring with raised eyebrows.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
She turned, looked, and by the expression on her face I guessed she was thinking “Goodness, I’m glad that was not a lion.”. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? and all of us pointed simultaneously to the wildcat now about 10 feet behind her. But they don’t live in North America.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. As climates are transformed, habitats plundered, and nonnative fauna carried to virgin hunting grounds, extinction rates are increasing.
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