Cats
laelaps | July 1, 2008Two Amur tiger cubs (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed in September 2007 at the Philadelphia zoo.
laelaps | June 30, 2008
Last week Ed blogged about a new PLoS paper implicating canine distemper, parasites, and climate changes in the severe reductions in lion some lion populations seen during the last 15 years in Africa. Coincidentally, the PBS show Nature featured a special last night called "Vanishing Lions" about similar problems, with the interactions between lions and humans in Kenya dominated the film;
In many places lions are being ecologically strangled to death. With their ranges restricted to parks (lions who wander outside and kill livestock are killed), lions in some parts of Africa are facing…
laelaps | June 30, 2008An Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed in the summer of 2007 at the Bronx zoo.
laelaps | June 27, 2008I've got my second precalc exam tonight so I'll be hitting the books, but I won't leave you hanging. Here are some pictures of the numerous kittens that have come through the apartment during the past week;
This is June; she was adopted last Saturday.These are the little bottle-feeders that stayed overnight.This is Eliza, one of the kittens that is now staying at the apartment.This is Madeline, Eliza's sister.They are experts at not looking at the camera.A close-up of Charlotte. Eyez of teh tyger; I has them.[Update]: Speaking of cats, check out Nature on PBS this weekend to see a new…
laelaps | June 26, 2008This is Chase, the first cat I adopted about two years ago. He actually belonged to some friends of mine, but when they got a poodle Chase was so stressed out that he would do little more than hide in the laundry room. Being that he warmed up to me while still at his old home I agreed to take him in, and he's been getting white hairs all over everything ever since.
laelaps | June 25, 2008I still have to upload the last photos I took of her onto the computer, but last Saturday June was adopted. I had a feeling she would be; lots of people had been asking about her, even one who wondering if June could be shipped for free...
After June was adopted my wife and I watched a trio of tiny bottle-feeders overnight. They wanted to make sure they got every last drop of milk, and when that was gone they decided to suck on my hand for a while. They went back to their regular foster home the next day, but last night Tracey and I picked up two new foster kittens. I named one Eliza and…
laelaps | June 18, 2008I forgot to upload a new photograph this morning so I had to rifle through my old stuff to find something that I hadn't posted before. This is a male cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), photographed at the Philadelphia zoo in February 2007.
laelaps | June 6, 2008
Even though I'll miss the little guy, I'm pleased to say that Huxley was adopted last night. Being that Beatrice, Emma, and Elise were all recently adopted as well, that means that with the exception of two (Littlefoot and Kit) every cat that my wife and I have fostered has found a home.
There's a new little fuzzball in residence now, though; a 3-month-old long-haired kitten named June. She was found covered in concrete dust at a construction site and was going to be euthanized because she was "feral." She is so timid that I don't know how anyone could have thought that, but fortunately the…
laelaps | May 17, 2008Zeff, a female Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed this past March at the Bronx Zoo.
laelaps | May 16, 2008A snow leopard pair (Panthera uncia), photographed at the Bronx zoo in 2006.I've been lucky enough to get a few halfway-decent photographs of snow leopards during my regular visits to the Bronx zoo, but they're absolute rubbish compared to the photography in the feature "Out of the Shadows" in the latest issue of National Geographic. Indeed, snow leopards are among my favorite felids and the photography by Steven Winter shows them at their best.
A snow leopard about to take a cat nap at the Bronx zoo (photographed this past March).
laelaps | May 13, 2008An Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), photographed last year at the Philadelphia Zoo.
laelaps | May 12, 2008Zeff, a female Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed last year at the Bronx Zoo.
laelaps | May 7, 2008A lioness (Panthera leo), photographed last year at the Philadelphia Zoo. She is a representative of the "white lions" found in the Timbavati Private Game Reserve and Kruger National Park in South Africa.
laelaps | May 5, 2008Zeff, a 13-year-old Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) photographed taking a drink on a hot day last year at the Bronx Zoo.
laelaps | May 2, 2008What's a few more cat posts into the mix?
HuxleyHuxleyHuxley[Just as a side note, my wife took these pictures (and yesterday's video) with a digital camera I bought her last year. I'm still working on getting the insurance money from when I was robbed, but hopefully I'll be able to get something new before I head off to Delaware in a few weeks for a camping trip along the shore.]
laelaps | May 1, 2008This is Huxley, who will be five weeks old this week. He'll soon be going up for adoption, but he'll still be here for a few more weeks. (Note: For some reason the video makes a high-pitched whine, so be sure to turn down/mute your volume before you play it);
laelaps | May 1, 2008A cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) photographed at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. last year.
laelaps | April 25, 2008I might have failed to mention this, but last Tuesday Mishu was adopted. Emma and Elise are still here, and Beatrice has gone back to the adoption center (although I'm sure we'll be seeing her again), but this afternoon Tracey and I got another call that there was a 4 week old kitten that needed a temporary home. I named him Huxley, and although he'll be with us for at least another 4 weeks, I'm sure he'll have no problem getting adopted.