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Showing posts with label lions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lions. Show all posts
Remember Leo the Lion?
Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures, featured in the studio's production logo.
Slats was the first lion used for the newly-formed MGM studio. He was born at Dublin Zoo, Ireland on March 20, 1919. The photo above is Slats the Lion being filmed for his cinematic debut as the MGM Logo, c. 1924.
Slats was used on all black-and-white MGM films between 1924 and 1928. Slats was trained to growl rather than roar (although in the logo he did nothing but look around), and for the next couple of years, the lion would tour with MGM promoters to signify the studio's launch.
Slats died in 1936. His skin is now on display at the McPherson Museum, in Kansas.
The original logo was designed by Howard Dietz and used by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation studio from 1916 to 1924.
PHOTO 1: via The Daily What
PHOTO 2: Wikipedia
Slats was the first lion used for the newly-formed MGM studio. He was born at Dublin Zoo, Ireland on March 20, 1919. The photo above is Slats the Lion being filmed for his cinematic debut as the MGM Logo, c. 1924.Slats was used on all black-and-white MGM films between 1924 and 1928. Slats was trained to growl rather than roar (although in the logo he did nothing but look around), and for the next couple of years, the lion would tour with MGM promoters to signify the studio's launch.
Slats died in 1936. His skin is now on display at the McPherson Museum, in Kansas.
The original logo was designed by Howard Dietz and used by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation studio from 1916 to 1924.
PHOTO 1: via The Daily What
PHOTO 2: Wikipedia
3 Times Cute!
Three white lion cubs are presented to the public for the first time at the city zoo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday Jan. 5, 2011. The cubs were born on Nov. 16, 2010. According to zoo officials these are the first white lions to be born in South America.Source
AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia
Mom to the rescue
This incredible scene was captured minutes after a herd of buffalo tried to drive a lioness and her babies from their den.The watchful lioness carefully nestled each one-day-old cub between her jaws and padded to a nearby bush for safety in Okavago, Botswana.
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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
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
The pride of Britain
Six adorable white lion cubs – born to two different mothers – help form the world’s largest pride of this striking species in captivity. The cubs take the number of white lions at West Midland Safari Park in Worcestershire to 19.
The park’s white lion collection has grown from four animals who were introduced in 2004.
The lions are not albino but are a rare mutation of lion found in a 200-square-mile area called Timbavati, in South Africa’s bush country.
According to African folklore, once every hundred years, magical white lions will be born bringing joy to those who witness them.
Source: Mail online
The park’s white lion collection has grown from four animals who were introduced in 2004.The lions are not albino but are a rare mutation of lion found in a 200-square-mile area called Timbavati, in South Africa’s bush country.
According to African folklore, once every hundred years, magical white lions will be born bringing joy to those who witness them.
Source: Mail online
Today's awwww
A trio of white lion cubs born last month at the zoo in the German town of Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock. Two rare white lionesses gave birth simultaneously to seven cubs at the zoo.
Source: Daily Mail
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