WildFireShine have a Brown (Black) Spotted Bengal Tabby Stud for sale. Shelby is a young champion, does not marks, has magnificent temperament & excellent structure and type, healthy and “makes” good kittens. Transfers children the very small ears. 1500$. He was born 29.05.2007
WildFireShine are located in Russia, Moscow oblast, pos.Lesnoj, Pushkinskij r-on.
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Cattail Forest (Belmont, Michigan) have a male silver spotted bengal kitten for sale. He was born in December and is now ready to leave for a forever home. His father is a Triple Grand Champion. Priced at $650, “Avery” is a little boy from Tinker Bell of Cattail Forest. He has incredible black rossettes against a white background. He was recently neutered and implanted with a Avid microchip. See breeder listing for further information
Regular readers of this blog will know that along with fetching you news about Bengal kitten availability, we also publish ‘big cat’ news – leopards, pumas, tigers, lions, jaguars and the like. Most of the news we publish is current, but this story is a little dated – to be exact it’s 13,000 years old.
Scientists from Oxford University have discovered that Super size giant lions were roaming around North America, the UK and Europe, thirteen thousand years ago.
Remains of giant cats previously discovered were thought to be a species of jaguar or tiger but after DNA analysis they were proved to be lions.
They were 25% bigger than the species of African lion living today, and had longer legs to chase their prey.
They would have lived in icy tundra with mammoth and sabretooth tigers.
It is thought these animals would hunt over longer distances, and their longer legs would help them chase down their prey as opposed to the modern-day species which tends to ambush its victims.
The Oxford team analysed DNA from fossils and other remains gathered from Germany to Siberia, and Alaska to Wyoming.
Dr Ross Barnett, who conducted the research at Oxford University’s department of Zoology, said: “These ancient lions were like a super-sized version of today’s lions and, in the Americas, with longer legs adapted for endurance running.
“What our genetic evidence shows is that these ancient extinct lions and the lions of today were very closely related.
“Cave art also suggests that they formed prides, although the males in the pictures would not have had manes and they are depicted very realistically.”
Lions appear to have been very important to early man with many depictions of them in their cave paintings, as in seen in the pre-historic cave complex at Chauvet in France.
Other archaeological finds in Germany include figurines which are half man, half lion, leading to the theory that lions may even have been worshipped by ancient humans.
The team found that these remains from the Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million years ago to 10,000 years ago) could be divided into two groups: the American Lion which lived in North America, and the Cave Lion which lived in northern Europe, Russia, Alaska and the Yukon.
These ancient cats would have lived in an environment that was more like an icy tundra and would have shared their habitat with herds of other large animals such as mammoth, woolly rhino, sabre tooth tigers and giant deer.
About 13,000 years ago these species died out in a mass extinction. Figuring out the reason behind this, Dr Barnett said, was one of the last great scientific mysteries.
He said: “There are a couple of different schools of thought. It could have been climate change or something to do with humans. Humans could have been killing off their prey or killing the lions themselves.
“The extinction is a big question that remains unresolved. More research and more advanced genetic analysis may help answer it.”
Joining us this month on BengalClassifieds are Black Mountain Bengals. Located in San Diego, California, Black Mountain currently have a silver spotted female and a seal lynx point male bengal kitten available. They were born on March 14 and will be ready to go to forever homes on May 23. Kittens will be registered with TICA and be current on vaccines and come with a health guarantee. See breeder listing on the main website for more photos and contact details.
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Fear often seems to begin with a road. Driving into tiger territory, all voices in the jeep gradually fell silent. The only sound was the thick vegetation swishing against the windows as we lurched along the muddy track. The forest in Jambi province, Sumatra, is the site of Indonesia’s newest conflict. Tigers are killing people here at the rate of one a week. As their forests disappear under loggers’ saws or to make way for plantations, Sumatra’s endangered tigers are, quite simply, turning to humans for food.
We were on our way to the site of one attack. Soon, the tell-tale signs of illegal loggers appeared out of the forest – piles of wood, neatly stacked in a small clearing. We pulled up, and started down their tracks into the forest.
For Indonesia’s tiger catchers, this is their daily commute.
In just a few months, these forest rangers have gone from chasing illegal loggers to finding and catching the tigers who are killing them.
And even now, their guns and camaraderie do not completely hide their fear.
The silence was thick with it as we made our way into the forest.
Everything at the illegal logging site was pretty much as Khoiry left it before he was attacked and killed.
Felled trees were piled up ready for transport out of the forest, the ground was thick with sawdust.
There were no footprints left for the team to track, and no sign of a tiger.
But in terms of why these attacks are happening, chief tiger ranger Nurazman Nurdin said this site was right on target.
“The main problem is illegal logging,” he explained. “It’s destroying the tigers’ habitat. This place, for example, they don’t have a permit for what they’re doing here – it’s illegal.”
It might be illegal, but for the people living here the punishment seems disproportionate.
In one village, we found Supari on the front porch of her house. She lost her husband and son in a tiger attack here only a few weeks ago.
She buckled with tears as she told us how they were killed while cutting wood just a short distance from the house.
But Supari’s son-in-law Coko says it is wrong to blame them for what happened.
“We’re victims, not thieves,” he told me. “We go to the forest to put food on the table. You can’t blame us for this conflict with the tigers.”
Hundreds of kilometres away in the provincial capital, district chief Burhanuddin Hanir agreed.He said this latest conflict was probably the result of a new logging company which started operating nearby – with official permission.But why was a logging company given permission to operate in the tigers’ dwindling territory?
“We only found out there were tigers in the area after the investors started chopping down the trees,” he said.
“Now we have more regulations to protect the tigers’ habitat. But the problem is that the tigers are already disturbed and angry.”
As in many parts of Indonesia’s vast territory, regulations are one thing – enforcing them is quite another.
There could be as few as 250 tigers left here, but Sumatra’s forest is now so depleted it is struggling to support even this tiny number.
Back at the attack site, ranger Nurazman Nurdin sounded dejected.
He told me there was no long-term plan – the rangers were just trying to keep the humans and tigers apart.
It is dangerous work – and not a job he enjoys.
But Sumatra’s tiger catchers are up against more than just hungry tigers. They’re battling the world’s demand for Indonesia’s forests, and the timber and paper and palm oil they provide.
These are lucrative exports for Indonesia. The question is whether their tigers are worth any more.