CHAPTER ONE

“Mister tenant, your days are numbered. Hope you have packed your load” Tete said mockingly as she passed by his side and patted his rump with her paw.

“Get off me,” he snarled.

He leaped up to lunge at her. But out of the corner of his eyes, he caught sight of her mother and his other three step mothers watching them keenly.

His anger rapidly subsided and he walked away from his half-sister.

“Hey Didi, where are you running to? You scared of your own tail?” Tete called out.

“Enough Tete,” her mother snapped.

“I was just joking with him.”

“Enough I said.”

“But Didi is still going to leave, right?”

”Yes, our custom demands we send him away from the Pride. But, don’t make an enemy of him, for your paths might still cross.”

“He won’t last a day on his own,” Tete replied.

“Never say never,” said her mother quietly.

“He is a wimp.”

“Your father was once like him.”

“My father is a warrior,” Tete said.

“Yes, he is. But he was not born one. He became one.”

“Didi does not have the balls.”

“He will grow it.”

“How?”

“Lack of options often makes a hero of the weakest of us.”

“He can’t even hunt on his own.”

“He will learn.”

“Who will teach him when he leaves the Pride?”

“Time and chance happens to us all. Life will teach him using hunger and loneliness.”

“I still don’t agree with you mum. You don’t know Didi.”

“I have been a Lion longer than you have been my child. I know Lions and I know a warrior when I see one.”

“Hmm.”

“My child, your father is my 3rd husband. I have seen many things that your mind is yet to understand. So be careful not to make an enemy of your brother.”

“Even if he comes back, I will be ready for him.”

“No my child, if he comes back, he will be too much for you.”

(To be continued)

Title says it all. What are some of your favorite species of theropod dinosaurs and why?

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Please find the attached detailed itinerary in the attachment.

The Birmingham pride is the prominent pride of Ngala Private Game Reserve,and the only in Greater Kruger thats contains wild white (leucistics lions) 


The Birmingham pride as of May 2024 consist on 
9 adult females
18 cubs
2  males
Territory: Ngala/Orpen/Manyeleti
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Birminghamprideoflions?mibextid=LQQJ4d

I have seen conflicting views in definition of panther. Some says, Leopard, Puma, Jaguar, Snow Leopard, Caracal are called Panther. Other says only Leopard and Puma are Panther.

Few have also claims only Black species of Leopard and Puma are Panther? While few other add black jaguar in this list.

So, What we include in panther?

The whale shark could be a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the biggest known extant angle species. The biggest affirmed person had a length of 18.8 m. The whale shark holds numerous records for an estimate within the creature kingdom, most eminently being by distant the biggest living nonmammalian vertebrate.

Fair look past the tail of the blue whale to a spot tall on the divider underneath a curve to the correct at the back of the corridor. Not at all like whales, sharks are not warm-blooded animals but have a place to gather of cartilaginous fishes. The whale shark (Rhinodon typus) gains the title “whale” exclusively since of its size.

Whale sharks are exceedingly esteemed on worldwide markets. Request for their meat, balances, and oil remains a danger to the species, especially by unregulated fisheries. They are casualties of bycatch, the inadvertent capture of non-target species in angling adapt.

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Whale sharks have a wide dispersion in tropical and warm mild oceans, ordinarily between scopes 30°N and 35°S. They are known to possess both profound and shallow coastal waters and the tidal ponds of coral atolls and reefs. Australia is one of the foremost dependable areas to discover whale sharks.



Here are a few photographs of whale sharks :

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What zoo has a whale shark?

1. Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, US. At Georgia Aquarium is located largest tank in the World. Ocean Voyager holds 24 million liters (6.3 million US gallons) of water and was specially designed to house whale sharks, the largest fish species in the world.

:) :)

This thread will be for information,Vids and pictures of Blue whales.

Set in the tropical waters of Sri Lanka, the story follows underwater photographer Patrick Dykstra’s journey to photograph the blue whale. Revisiting the same spot off the Sri Lankan coast every year, Patrick became one of the first photographers to document the local blue whale population. Using technology to his advantage, he could photograph both above and below – capturing the immense size of the animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrx5zi_...e=youtu.be

Baby blue whale with its mother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpfVmP0hJ4


Some drone footage of blue whales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDway8UB6nM

astonishing footage of blue whales. i rewatched this vid multiple times just looking at how huge these creatures are!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CChQ6pDUXmk

This is a thread for the appreciation, analysis and discussion of Pleistocene cave art from around the world. Cave art, also called parietal art, includes cave paintings, as well as all forms of engraved rock art, other petroglyphs, and any relief sculpture carved on walls, floors or ceilings. Since this is an animal forum, it's probably best to stick to cave art that represents animals, living or extinct.

For the inaugural post, here is an image of the famous Black Stag painting from the walls of the Lascaux Cave in France. The photo is from Don's Maps


 It is often thought to be a depiction of the well-known extinct deer Megaloceros giganteus, aka the Irish Elk, but I think it is clearly a representation of a far more familiar animal - the fallow deer! I did a full write up of the reasoning which led me to this conclusion, and you can find that here. I think it's a little strange that fallow deer were given such an imposing portrayal in the cave, but there are large paintings of other medium sized animals in the Lascaux caves - in  particular, of horses.
 If this painting is really of a fallow deer, which I think it really seems to be, then that means means there is one less "Megaloceros" depiction to refer to when trying to reconstruct that animal, but the ones in Cosquer and Chauvet are still there, and I think the Black Stag painting was a bit at-odds with these other depictions anyways.

Animal gifs over here