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Category: Cats

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright”

William Blake’s famous poem expresses incredulity that such an animal could ever have been created. Continue reading “Tyger Tyger, burning bright”

Posted on November 26, 2019November 12, 2019Categories Cats, Odds & EndsTags tiger, Tyger, USALeave a comment on “Tyger Tyger, burning bright”

Cats – by someone less well known than T.S. Eliot

One of the 20th century’s great English poets, A.S.J. Tessimond’s work was rediscovered in the 1970s and has since received great acclaim. Continue reading Cats – by someone less well known than T.S. Eliot

Posted on May 10, 2019May 7, 2019Categories Cats, Writing & WritersTags Cats, TessimondLeave a comment on Cats – by someone less well known than T.S. Eliot

This is an ex-tiger!

Monty Python’s 1969 “Dead Parrot Sketch” is a classic, but it has tragic overtones. Continue reading This is an ex-tiger!

Posted on August 29, 2017August 23, 2017Categories Cats, NostalgiaTags conservation, critically endangered, Sumatran tigerLeave a comment on This is an ex-tiger!

Tiger, tiger…

At the beginning of the 19th century there were 40,000 tigers in the world. Today, around 4,000 are left in the wild, more than half of them in India. Continue reading Tiger, tiger…

Posted on July 22, 2016July 18, 2016Categories Cats, UncategorizedTags tiger, TygerLeave a comment on Tiger, tiger…

The Iberian lynx: Prehistoric feline grace

Until recently the survival of the Iberian lynx, one of the world’s rarest wildcats, was in doubt. But conservation efforts are finally paying off. Continue reading The Iberian lynx: Prehistoric feline grace

Posted on February 26, 2016February 25, 2016Categories CatsTags conservation, Doñana, Iberian lynx, Spain1 Comment on The Iberian lynx: Prehistoric feline grace

Snow leopard: A close encounter of the rarest kind

Getting up close and almost personal with one of the world’s most beautiful and inscrutable big cats. Continue reading Snow leopard: A close encounter of the rarest kind

Posted on September 1, 2015August 19, 2015Categories CatsTags conservancy, Marwell Zoo, snow leopard, T. S. EliotLeave a comment on Snow leopard: A close encounter of the rarest kind

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