Saving white lions

A family of extremely rare white lions are about to be released into the wild in a step conservationists hope will save their 'species' from being condemned to captivity.

White lioness Zihra, her mate Mandla and their three one-year-old cubs - sons Zukhara and Matsienge and daughter Nebu - are due to be freed in South Africa within the next few days.

They were each knocked out with an anaesthetic recently so that scientists could collar the big cats. This will help track the pride across the savannah in the future.

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Anybody want a lion?

José Luis García from Córdoba has less than a month to find a new home for Sandof, the lion who’s been with him for three years and who will lose his home because of plans to extend Córdoba Airport.

José Luis runs a small zoo and is losing his land before the end of the month to make space for the new extension. Among the other animals which must move from the zoo are six pythons, one of which is an albino.

Contacts with other zoos in Spain have been unsuccessful in finding a new home for Sandof as the lion is a male, and cannot be housed with any other male lion.

Señor García is hoping that his idea of giving him away as a package with the pythons may save Sandof from being put down.

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Brave, loving, or stupid?

Read the story in the Daily Mail about British park ranger Alex Larenty who regularly treats eight year old lion Jamu to a foot massage and a hug.

(The shots were taken at The Lion Park, near Johannesburg, South Africa, just weeks before a man who broke into the reserve was mauled and killed.)

Making a splash

Most people know that it's not true that cats have a fear of water. Some cats actually like to swim.

But it is pretty rare to catch wild cats enjoying a dip.

Photographer Per Gunnar Ostby, was very fortunate to capture three female lions enjoying their swim one crisp, dawn morning on a trek near the Chobe National Park in Botswana.



Source: Daily Mail

Photos: Per Gunnar Ostby