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Hello everyone! Here’s a quick update video talking about our upcoming plans.
We’ll be doing a raffle at the end of this month, and the winner will be announced on May 31st 2015. You can read the details here, and we’ll be making a separate post on it shortly!
The auction is still in early planning stages, however, expect to hear much about it in June!
Thank you so much for your support! Together, we can save wild cats!
This makes my stomach turn. This is from Catty Shack Ranch in Jacksonville, Florida. I think I have gotten asks about this before but the EXTREME lack of concern for the animals(THAT many tigers in one cage? at feeding time?!) and lack of safety measures for people is absolutely appalling. What a horrendous facility, avoid at all costs.
You can see a similar feeding video here.
You may hear the pitter-patter of little paws splashing in a small pool the next time you visit the Fragile Rain Forest exhibit. That’s because
there is a new addition: a male fishing cat kitten born on October 31,
2014. He has now grown old enough to be
seen on exhibit with his 4-year-old mom, Anna. You can help care for the
fishing cats at Brookfield Zoo through the Share the Care program.
Visit www.CZS.org/ShareTheCare
for more information. Fishing cats are endangered in the wild. Once
found throughout Asia, they are now found in densely vegetated areas
near marshes, mangroves, rivers, and streams in discontinuous areas of
the continent
Siberian tiger Tanya shows her skills… making snowballs
By The Siberian Times reporter 26 January 2015The unknown skills of the endangered Amur tiger have been discovered by keepers at Kaliningrad Zoo in Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave. At first staff thought someone was throwing giant snowballs into her cage. But then the truth emerged - their prized Siberian tigress had cleverly found a way to entertain herself in the dark by rolling snowballs, and turning them into a play toy.
The big cat is now delighting visitors with her unique wintry skills. She carefully pushes the snow around until it forms a giant snowball, big enough to make a snowman. Tanya pushes the snowball from one side of her cage to the other.
Zoo spokesperson Ekaterina Mikhailova said: ‘One morning, zoologists came to work and found snowballs in Tanya’s cage. Naturally, no one thought that the tigress was able to make them by herself. Zoologists decided that someone joked and threw large snowballs into the cage, but one evening she was caught.’
Zoo director Svetlana Sokolova added: ‘Our staff noticed it three years ago. They say that she doesn’t like making snowballs in the daylight, prefers doing this at night.’
Kaliningrad Zoo is one of the oldest zoological parks in Russia and has one of the biggest collections of animals.
The park, founded in 1896, originally opened as the Konigsberg Tiergarten in then-German Konigsberg, before becoming part of Russia in 1945.
With more than 16 hectares and has more than 300 different species.
What Baby Tigers are Forced to do Might Shock You
Warning: Disturbing content.
Look, I know this is the HSUS so take it with a grain of salt if you need, but the footage doesn’t lie. This is exactly what happens to these cubs and I have seen the same types of footage over and over from other sources on cub petting venues. This is the norm. But this is what you’re supporting when you pet cubs. No matter what they say, no matter how nice they look.
The cats of Exmoor Zoo Pt.2 by thouartthegreatcat
This summer I spent 4 weeks at Exmoor Zoo in Devon, UK conducting some behavioural research on seven of the felinae species housed there. Captive carnivores in general are incredibly difficult to appease due to their wild feeding habits - that cannot be fully catered for in the captive environment. My area of research is focusing on advancing our understanding of feline behaviour in order to improve their management in both ex-situ and in-situ conservation.
As part of my research I took some reference videos, and stitched them together to thank the keepers for their patience and support whilst I was there. This video features the sand cats, fishing cats, leopard cats and asian golden cat.
Enjoy, and feel free to ask me any questions!
The cats of Exmoor Zoo Pt.1 by thouartthegreatcat
This summer I spent 4 weeks at Exmoor Zoo in Devon, UK conducting some behavioural research on seven of the felinae species housed there. Captive carnivores in general are incredibly difficult to appease due to their wild feeding habits - that cannot be fully catered for in the captive environment. My area of research is focusing on advancing our understanding of feline behaviour in order to improve their management in both ex-situ and in-situ conservation.
As part of my research I took some reference videos, and stitched them together to thank the keepers for their patience and support whilst I was there. This video features the puma, caracal and rusty spotted cat.
Enjoy, and feel free to ask me any questions!
Sukhi patia and three cubs
The three cubs in this video are from Suhki Pattiah’s 2nd litter of three males. Pictures and videos of the litter are rare because a male called Blue Eyed Boy killed them at a young age. After Blue Eyed Boy killed the cubs, Pattiah went back into heat, and proceeded to mate with her litter’s killer, Blue Eyed Boy. The pair produced two female cubs together.