Big Cat Rescue’s In Situ Conservation Work 2017 Saving Wild Places for Wild Cats Click the pins on the map, or the species on the left, to get all of the details! Research and Articles by Lauren Buckingham See Current year in situ work at: https://bigcatrescue.org/insitu/ See InSitu work from 2016 and before here: https://bigcatrescue.org/insitu2016/ Almost two decades…
Big Cat Rescue’s In Situ Conservation Work 2016 Saving Wild Places for Wild Cats Click the pins on the map, or the species on the left, to get all of the details! Research and Articles by Lauren Buckingham See Current year in situ work at: https://bigcatrescue.org/insitu/ See InSitu work from 2017 and before here: https://bigcatrescue.org/insitu2016/ In 2016 Big…
Joseph Male Lion DOB 8/19/98 Rescued 10/21/07 Died 3/1/2018 (euthanized after losing battle w/ pancreatic cancer) Joseph the lion was rescued along with several other lions and tigers who had been bred to be used as photo and ego props. Your Lion Eyes When a lens luxated due to…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It was a Tuesday evening in October of 2011 when Terry Thompson, a private owner of exotic animals in Zanesville, Ohio, opened the cages of his 56 tigers, lions, cougars, bears, and wolves and let them loose. When Muskingum County Sheriff Matthew J. Lutz and his deputies arrived on the scene, they were face to…
Find out which wildcat is most like you through this short quiz
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How to Deter Exotic Pet Purchases Our Director of Outreach Jennifer Leon sent me the following: Helena, my former intern, shared the attached paper with me. It’s an interesting study. The findings indicated that informing potential exotic pet purchasers about zoonotic disease risk and the potential illegality of owning said animal decreased interest in owning…
Scientific Names for Common Wild Cat Species? Caracal Line African Golden Cat Caracal aurata Caracal Caracal caracal Serval Leptailurus serval Felis Line Jungle Cat Felis chaus Sand Cat Felis margarita Black-footed Cat Felis nigripes Wildcat Felis silvestris Pallas cat Otocolobus manul Leopardus Line Pampas Cat Leopardus colocolo Geoffroy’s Cat Leopardus geoffroyi Kodkod Leopardus guigna Andean…
Snow Tigers? There is no cat species known as a “snow tiger” What are snow tigers? There is no single answer to that question, because there is no cat species known as a “snow tiger”. It could be that people are referring to Snow Leopards, a gray cat with charcoal spots that lives above the…
This article is from 2011, but the real haunting should be that Jack Hanna should have known better than to take wild animals onto talk shows. We believe that it’s a monkey-see-monkey-do world out there and when people see celebrities, like Jack Hanna, taking cute baby wild cats into TV studios, they want to be…
