Why not? Unused capacities tend to atrophy, being expensive to maintain. The capacity for social behaviour suggests that it is used. As it is in...
I have long suspected that many cat species are more social than we think -not just in lion prides and cheetah male coalitions. Many other cats...
New cheetah, Shaka There is a new male cheetah, Shaka - brought over from Africa Alive in early May, it being hoped he will help to generate a...
Very easy indeed - though I caught just a brief glimpse of the rusty-spotted which is very shy like many of the smaller cats. This is why I...
I can confirm this having gone yesterday (Sat. 30th May). Normally avoid weekends and holidays but was taking a friend and his 11-year-old son;...
Is that the 'high-fiver'? I saw one of the cubs, then a year old, play with a kid on 1 May last year (2014) by putting his paw up against the...
Marine mammals - I had heard about dolphins at least. If animals mate in water, this provides physical support allowing mating in any anatomically...
I think there is a case for having two categories of captive animal. Where there is indeed a possibility that the animals be returned to the wild,...
I attach a pair of photos I took almost a year ago at Twycross Zoo on 1 May 2014. A young snow leopard - I believe it was his first birthday -...
A strong argument for reintroducing the lynx and other former natives is this: Conservationists in rich countries like ours are forever lecturing...
Here are Zuri and Safina, a pair of lions at Linton Zoo, Cambridgeshire. They regularly mate in the missionary position as shown. On U-tube is a...
On a recent visit to Hamerton Zoo on a quiet day I watched a cheetah which was slowly walking up and down the fence of its compound - and it was...
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