Did you think that the cheetah is actually a thin cat? Slenderness does not equate lack of muscle. Check this video and admire the work of the muscles while this cheetahs run full speed.

At the end of the video, you have also seen a most common event: A cheetah loosing its prey to hyenas quickly arrived at the kill scene to steal the prey.

as these dog are proving.

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Well! Try applying for this one: “Bath assistant for lions”.

In those recession times, I guess I’ll stick to engineering…

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But, it this really a tiger on the photo?

Automatic hidden camera triggered by movement has shot still frames, half a second apart. The result is this great video of a snow leopard in the wild.

Assistant Director of Science Kim Murray, SnowLeopard.org.

If you love saber-tooth cats, if you love drawing, if you want to associated both, it’s time you visit the DragoArt.com web site. They have a nice tutorial on how to draw one of these extinct big cats.

Draw a saber tooth tiger

You will learn to draw in step by step construction, the Saber Tooth Tiger from the movie called 10.000 B.C.

Go put a small ad to recruit in such a job opening:

Circus looking for a permanent position as “big cat bath assistant”.
Experience not required.

The lion and the bath

Cheetahs are impressive hunters thanks to their capacity for high speed chases that leave nearly no chance to a surprised victim. But, it is also a very fragile animal which is usually not able to defend its prey. Here is a very common situation: The gazelle he just caught is immediately stolen by the much more powerful hyena that took the opportunity to grab a fresh kill with minimal risk.

Life is unforgiving in Africa savanna.

Springtime brings many new animals to the parks and zoos, not only new visitors. Boston.com “The Big Picture” publishes some photographs from zoos and aquariums around the world from the past couple of months.

A Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) roars as it feeds at the zoo of Zurich, Switzerland.
(AP Photo/Keystone, Urs Flueeler)