Big cats get big hairballs, which I suppose we might have guessed. Ty the tiger, from Widlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, was clogged up by a hug hairball (he lost 100 pounds), which had to be surgically removed.
WTSP News has the story, pictures, and a video:
The hospital says Vernon Yates with the not-for-profit Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc. brought in the 17-year-old male jungle cat to see a specialist on Monday, after the tiger had not eaten on his own for nearly two weeks.
Interior Lives, Katherine Rowland interviews Claire Messud – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics.
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10 Common Ideas About Sex — That May Be Totally Wrong
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by Greg Mayer
We've noted a number of times here on WEIT the great things that have been done using camera traps to survey rare and endangered species, especially felids. Age Kridalaksana of the Center for International Forestry Research has gotten pictures and produced a video of his successful search for the Javan leopard, Panthera pardus melas (see also the video on conservation challenges in Indonesia).
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John Green from Mental Floss corrects 50 common misquotations. I must say, I've misquoted at least a dozen of these. Let's not have any of these on this site, or at least any of these distorted or misattributed!
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Since I needed for one of my book projects a few shots of the famous Gorongosa crocodiles, which rank among the largest in Africa, I asked for help from Bob Poole, a man with considerable crocodile experience. Bob is a legendary National Geographic cameraman who shot, among other NatGeo titles, "Africa's Lost Eden" and "War Elephants."
We decided to set up a blind near one of the crocodiles' basking beaches on the night before, arrive when it was still dark and sneak into the hide, and photograph the animals from there.
Now I suppose this will interest only a subset of our photography enthusiasts here, but I wanted to call attention to an upcoming week-long course on insect photography in Belize, whose instructors include two superb nature photographers that I've often featured on this site: Piotr Naskrecki and Alex Wild.
The flyer is below, and the website for the course is…
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