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My Ragdoll kittens when they were 4 months old, Simba at the front and Jasmine at the back. Taken on an iPhone. They are named after the movie characters Princess Jasmine and Simba the Lion King.
We learned recently from his previous owner who came to visit him, that Simba failed becoming a police dog only because he looked — with his floppy ears — not scary enough. He passed every other test. The chippers, tree surgeons who drop their chippings here, would beg to differ. I have to have him on a lead or tie him up whilst they're here, as they know by painful experience, he would have a go!
A fantastic guard dog!
Since his pups arrived, Simba sleeps three feet way in my RV, and follows me everywhere. He's a pussycat with Rob and I. And he's got a fantastic, exited, happy, wiggle-his-whole-body greeting, reserved just for me now. I'm a privileged man.
Simba (lion in swahili) is one of a pair of beautiful and cute young cats that somebody to the trash near my home a couple days ago. I took them to my backyard but they show sadness in their eyes. I will take care of them now.
Explore #In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight...
Got off of work early and I'm bored as you can tell. No need to add this one as a fav or comment people :) I guess if your a big fan of Simba or the lion king then it's okay.
Yay! Simba tied for first place in the Sleeping Cat Photo contest for December 2007 :) Thanks to all of you who voted for our little sweetums!
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
By Dereck Joubert, for National Geographic, in Duba Plains,
Botswana. Published August 5, 2013.
Lions are one of the most iconic animals on the planet. They play starring roles in the art of hundreds of cultures, in literature from history books to fairytales and are, of course, one of the biggest draws of tourists to the African continent. However, they are disappearing from the wild at an astonishingly rapid rate. Lions have disappeared from 90 percent of their historic range due to habitat loss, hunting and poaching, retaliatory killings by livestock owners, loss of prey and other factors. They are extinct in 26 African countries. In the 1950s, the best estimate of the world's lion population was 450,000. Today, studies point to 20,000 to 30,000 lions remaining. We've lost 95 percent of lions in the last 70 years.
Though lions are such a big part of the human consciousness across the planet, we are at risk of the species entirely disappearing from the grasslands where they roam. These big cats are part of a much bigger ecosystem, one in which humans play a significant role. That role can be shifted from one that is causing lion populations to dwindle toward extinction, to one that creates strategies for coexisting with and protecting this important and magnificent predator. The loss, or even reduction in numbers, of lions in an ecosystem can set off something caused a "trophic cascade" in which the change in predator population has effects across the food web and ecosystem.
Buffalo would become dominant and, absent the lion threat, would be content to stay in one place, making them more vulnerable to existence-threatening parasites. Predators keep prey vital.
Financially, ecotourism generates around $80 billion a year for Africa, which feeds into local communities and economies. Few people I know would bother coming on safari if they knew they would not see the king of the beasts.
As those tourism dollars diminished, so too would the will of the people to protect and grow national parks to preserve wildlife. Poor, sick people are not conservationists.
Without lions, expect increased poverty, poor health, poaching, desperation, and greater pressure on Western countries to support Africa via aid programs. So saving these animals should be a global mandate.
Good morning and Happy Monday! Let's make it an amazing week. This fella was chilling in the crater floor of Ngorongoro, with a backdrop of canyon wall behind him.
From the series "INTO AFRICA"
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
By Dereck Joubert, for National Geographic, in Duba Plains,
Botswana. Published August 5, 2013.
Lions are one of the most iconic animals on the planet. They play starring roles in the art of hundreds of cultures, in literature from history books to fairytales and are, of course, one of the biggest draws of tourists to the African continent. However, they are disappearing from the wild at an astonishingly rapid rate. Lions have disappeared from 90 percent of their historic range due to habitat loss, hunting and poaching, retaliatory killings by livestock owners, loss of prey and other factors. In the 1950s, the best estimate of the world's lion population was 450,000. Today, studies point to 20,000 to 30,000 lions remaining. We've lost 95 percent of lions in the last 50 years. Today, there are only about 20,000; lions are extinct in 26 African countries.
Though lions are such a big part of the human consciousness across the planet, we are at risk of the species entirely disappearing from the grasslands where they roam. These big cats are part of a much bigger ecosystem, one in which humans play a significant role. That role can be shifted from one that is causing lion populations to dwindle toward extinction, to one that creates strategies for coexisting with and protecting this important and magnificent predator. The loss, or even reduction in numbers, of lions in an ecosystem can set off something caused a "trophic cascade" in which the change in predator population has effects across the food web and ecosystem.
Buffalo would become dominant and, absent the lion threat, would be content to stay in one place, making them more vulnerable to existence-threatening parasites. Predators keep prey vital.
Financially, ecotourism generates around $80 billion a year for Africa, which feeds into local communities and economies. Few people I know would bother coming on safari if they knew they would not see the king of the beasts.
As those tourism dollars diminished, so too would the will of the people to protect and grow national parks to preserve wildlife. Poor, sick people are not conservationists.
Without lions, expect increased poverty, poor health, poaching, desperation, and greater pressure on Western countries to support Africa via aid programs. So saving these animals should be a global mandate.
"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction." -- E. O. Wilson
This image was captured in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
From the series "INTO AFRICA"