Here is some footage I took at Loch Lomond Bird of Prey Center in Scotland. They had a great diversity of raptors and do a fantastic job in educating the public. Take a look a look. If you like please share, enjoy!


Thanks,
Andre Bisson

 

This one was found in the state of Uttarakhand in northern India back in 2010, it's body was badly decomposed when the researchers got to it but because what they saw was such a big snake they decided to measure it and result came out to 23 feet 9 inches (7.24 meters). Well I'm very cautious of accepting this figure as it's so much bigger than any other scientifically verified king cobra but what do you all think? 

http://www.mahseerconservancy.com/blog/2...a-addison/
Keep in mind the advanced decomposition of the snake and the fact that the head is not as big as advertised.

One of the saddest day in human civilization. We are destroying our nature and loosing the battle to save our precious animals from poachers and mafia's.
This is heartbreaking news. I am really disappointed.
Will be see similar news for other animals, Like tiger, Lion etc ? Time to do something seriously .



Read the full article at http://www.11alive.com/news/article/3120...ed-extinct

This is what I feeling regarding human civilization.

There is reason why male Lion are considered as one of the most dangerous animal on earth, They have strong sense of brotherhood, they live like a tribe and care for each other at the same time they also live with greed of more power, dominance, territory and females, The story of Majingilane Male Lions is one of such great story in entire animal kingdom, its include love, murder, suspense and perfect composition.

I would suggest to get some time and read this page for their full story from their rise to fall, my be still going strong.
http://www.africam.com/wildlife/majingilanemalelions

I would love to see contribution of other lion fans in terms of picture, videos and their story.

INTENTION OF THE THREAD   

The relation between humans and big cats always was kind of tense. The reason is big cats are potentially dangerous. Some time ago, I read tigers probably accounted for more than a million humans.

There are so many books about man-eaters, I wouldn't know where to start. As a regurgitation (I couldn't find a better word just right now) of well-known stories isn't intended, I propose to select those that offer some kind of insight as to the causes. This also means this thread isn't the place to post your average before-bedtime-horror-story.  


HOW TO POST

If you post, you got to deliver a bit more than the facts only. The reason for this request is we want to know if those who hunted man-eaters were right when they concluded most man-eaters were more or less man-made. 

Here's a checklist of the things we want to know about: 

- region (elevation, climate, accessibility, vegetation, big cat and human cultures);   
- circumstances (any changes that could have resulted in different habits of big cats and humans?); 
- big cat (age, gender, fitness, size and character);
- humans (in what way did those living under the spell of the man-eater react?)
- hunter (experience and ideas), and
- conclusions.

When you post, distinguish between a part with scans and photographs (a) and a part with your own conclusions (b). We don't expect lots of words, just the right ones.

Every now and then, a photograph of a wild carnivore and a human is published. Most are posted in threads about the animal featured in the photograph, but my feeling is they don't belong there. For this reason, this thread was created. I propose to post photographs of wild carnivores and humans in this thread.

The thread Apollo started ('Vintage') some time ago in another section is quite similar, but most of the animals over there were photographed after they were shot. The proposal is to post live animals in this thread. All wild carnivores go, but we'd like to see those alive and well when possible.

No captive animals, no circus animals and no trophy animals, ok?    


01 - Africa. Wild male lion and photographer:



  


02 - Africa. Wild male lion and two photographers:






03 - Wild polar bear and biologist, first posted by Warsaw. The bear, a big male of 933 lbs., was sedated:






04 - Sedated wild male polar bear and biologist:






05 - Africa. Sedated male lion and biologists:






06 - Africa. Sedated male lion, ranger and biologists:






07 - Russia. Linda Kerley weighing an Ussuri brown bear (gender unknown), also known as black grizzly:






08 - Russia. Adult Ussuri male brown bear with rangers and biologists (2014):






09 - Sunderbans. Male tiger released into the wild after he recovered in the Alipore Zoo:






10 - Alaska. Male brown bear and photographers:






11 - India. Pattewala male tiger:






11 - Kazirangha. Male tiger, elephant and tourists:






12 - Central India. Male tiger Raja:






13 - Russia. Biologists, rangers, Putin and sedated Amur tigress (2008):






14 - Russia. Male Amur tiger 'The Professor' (204 kg.), rangers and researchers:

 On April 1, An amazing discovery happened, When group of scientist found a dwarf lion species occurred on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean about 140,000 years ago. Dr Spiros Prota-Aprilios of the Natural Historical Museum of Crete had this to say:

Quote:We are very excited by this discovery. That dwarf elephants occurred on Crete is already well known, and now we have discovered this well-preserved skeleton in the Asteio caves on the south of the island. A small earthquake last week opened up some new chambers we had not been able to access before.

Dwarfism among animals living on islands is a well-described phenomenon. I have already mentioned the Cretan dwarf elephant, but other examples are pygmy elephants on Borneo, the dwarf Maltese hippopotamus, the California Channel Island mammoth, the Zanzibar leopard and even some very small extinct humans on the Island of Flores in Indonesia. Some islands in the Caribbean even have dwarf flies and mosquitoes. Evolutionary biologists say that smaller animals need fewer resources, and that may explain this type of dwarfism.

We believe that the lion skeleton is about 140,000 years old. As you know, lions left Africa long before Homo sapiens made the journey, and wherever early humans went – Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, India – they found that lions were already there.

The lion would have been the size of a Labrador dog and probably weighed about 60kg. The skeleton is of a male, and we are hoping to find remains of females – they would have likely been smaller. We are not able to determine if the male Cretan lion had a mane.

Dr Prota-Aprilios laughed when asked if the Cretan lions would have lived in prides. "If so, the prides would have been small", he said.

Image of dwarf lion species skeleton found at island of Crete in the Mediterranean



Credit to Pieter Kat for this information.

Conservation is a direct result of decisions. As decisions and politics are intertwined, it is about politics in the end. This thread is about politics. Every decision regarding conservation can be posted in this thread. Debates are encouraged, but you are adviced to read the forum rules before you start or enter a debate. Remember rules are more important than anything else. Good luck. 

Now lets have the tables turned,since there is evidence of Tigers killing adult buffalo , including gaur, lets take it up a notch and see ifthere is any record of a Tiger killing an adult gaur faceto face.

I thought about this topic a while ago but just never had the time for it, so here we go. 


Katmai National Park - Brown Bears

Males	Females
6 - Headbob/Bullet	94 -
16 - Cinnamon	128 - Grazer
24 - BB	130 - Tundra
32 - Chunk	198
45 - Tatonka	216 - Marilyn
51 - Diver Junior	236 - Milkshake
83 - Wayne Brother	273
89 - Backpack	284
92 - Enigma	402
211 - Backbite	403 - Egberta
218 - Ugly	408 - CC
219 - One Toe (Deceased)	409 - Beadnose
234 - Evander	410 - Four Ton
247 - Snaggletooth	415
274 - Overflow	435 - Holly
418 - Jack	438 - Flo
420 - Genghis	468 - Reggie
469	608 -
480 - Otis	700 - Marge
489 - Ted	708 - Amelia
604 - Little	744 - Dent
634 - Popeye	790 - Weevil Bear
747 -	854 - Divot
755 - Scare D. Bear
814 - Lurch
856
864 - Norman
868 - Wayne Brother
879

Banff National Park - Brown Bears

Males	Females
122 - The Boss - Large 300 kilograms male (big for this area)	64 - 24 year old female bear of Bow Valley (deceased)
144 -	72
	142
	143 - sister of 142
	148 - sister of 144