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WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, bipartisan legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives that would prohibit breeding and private possession of captive big cats. The "Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act," introduced by Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Rep. Loretta Sanchez, (D-CA), would ensure that lions, tigers and other dangerous big cats--which are kept as pets in the U.S. in alarming numbers--do not threaten public safety, diminish global...
The Feline Conservation Federation (FCF) favors regulations for safe and humane exotic animal husbandry that allow present and future owners to be a part of captive conservation. Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 13, 2012 Ohio resident Terry Thompson released his menagerie of bears, lions, tigers, monkeys and pumas before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This tragedy has prompted calls by some for a complete ban on the private ownership of exotics. The Feline Conservation Federation...
Taking both a humorous and serious approach to this important issue, the InCATvenient Truth exposes commonplace misconceptions and provides a thought provoking examination of the true threats endangering the future of big cats. Washington, D. C. (PRWEB) January 30, 2012 The Feline Conservation Federation (FCF) documentary titled An InCATvenient Truth debunks the sensationalism, and takes a realistic look at big cats in captivity. An InCATvenient Truth is now viewable online on the FCF web...
LINCOLN, Calif., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lincoln, Calif.-based Rogers Family Company (www.rogersfamilyco.com) has launched a new organic "Fairly Traded" coffee - "Rare Find" - to help the wild cat conservation organization Panthera (www.panthera.org) protect one of the world's most beautiful and iconic animals: the jaguar. Rare Find coffee is available for sale online in 12-ounce and two-pound whole bean bags for $11.99 and $22.99 respectively. The Rogers Family...
The UA Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center is initiating three years of monitoring jaguar occurrence and movement in the U.S. borderlands area using cameras and DNA analysis from scat collected in the field. Results will inform future management and conservation practices. The recent sighting of an adult male jaguar in Cochise County in southeastern Arizona came as a reminder that even though the big spotted cat usually is associated with dense rainforests in central and southern...
The elusive snow leopard (Panthera uncia) lives high in the mountains across Central Asia. Despite potentially living across 12 countries the actual numbers of this beautiful large cat are largely unknown. It is thought that there might be somewhere between 350 and 500 distributed across Nepal's northern frontier. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Research Notes has used genetic analysis to show that the numbers of snow leopards in the central Himalayas is...
When lions and tigers roar loudly and deeply – terrifying every creature within earshot – they are somewhat like human babies crying for attention, although their voices are much deeper. So says the senior author of a new study that shows lions' and tigers' loud, low-frequency roars are predetermined by physical properties of their vocal fold tissue – namely, the ability to stretch and shear – and not by nerve impulses from the brain. "Roaring is similar to what a baby sounds...
CALHAN, Colo., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Julie Walker, Director of Operations, Serenity Springs Wildlife Center, today announced that the non-profit wildlife sanctuary, after consulting with big cat experts, would assemble the veterinary team and attempt to raise the funds to provide special modifications to a surgical table to accommodate the big cat, build a sterile recovery enclosure with a twelve foot high fence and ground level therapy pool, provide medications and several weeks of...
Ron DeArmond, course instructor for the Feline Conservation Federation teaches the Wildlife Conservation Educators Course to empower the next generation of conservation educators, and also, to present information and new ideas to help those already engaged in wildlife education. Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) October 13, 2011 The Feline Conservation Federation (FCF) is conducting the next Wildlife Conservation Educator’s Course on Saturday, November 5, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at the...
Converting Awareness Into Action NEW YORK, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new film titled Stuttering and the Big Cats featuring renowned American zoologist, conservationist, and field biologist Dr. Alan Rabinowitz is now available on DVD from the Stuttering Foundation. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110418/DC85478 ) In Stuttering and the Big Cats, Dr. Rabinowitz, president and CEO of New York-based Panthera, shares his life-long struggle to overcome stuttering...
Latest Big cat Reference Libraries
The Sunda clouded leopard or the Sundaland clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) is wildcat that can be found in Sumatra and Borneo. Its preferred habitat in Borneo occurs in lowland rainforests and possibly logged forests at an elevation below 4,900 feet. In Sumatra, it occurs in montane forests with abundant hills. There is not much information recorded about the Sunda leopard, because it is too elusive to study, but it is thought to be a solitary creature that hunts on the ground and uses...
The Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) is a subspecies of the leopard that is native to Sri Lanka. The range of this subspecies is highly fragmented, but in some areas, it does occur in high numbers. It prefers many types of habitats including rainforests, arid scrublands, evergreen monsoon forests, upper and lowland forests, and damp forests. The Sri Lankan leopard differs in size depending upon sex. Males can reach and average body length of about our feet with an average weight...
The American lion (Panthera leo atrox or P. atrox) is also known as the North American lion, American cave lion, or Naegele’s giant jaguar. It is an extinct species that was native to North America and the northwestern parts of South America during the Pleistocene era. It lived up to eleven thousand years ago. During the last interglacial period in North America (the Sangamonian Stage), the American lion’s range included the Americas south of Alaska. The earliest fossils of these big cats...
The Bornean Clouded Leopard (Neofelis diardi), is a medium-sized wild cat found on Borneo, Sumatra and the Batu Islands in the Malay Archipelago. It was previously also found in Java, but no specimens have been recorded there since Neolithic times. Their preferred habitat is tropical and subtropical forest at altitudes up to about 6,500 ft. The habits of the Bornean Clouded Leopard are largely unknown because of the animal's secretive nature. It is assumed that it is generally a solitary...
The jaguar (Panthera onca) (Brazilian Portuguese: onça pintada) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus. It is in this genus along with the tiger, lion and leopard of the Old World. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and lion. It is on average the largest and most powerful feline in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Mexico (with occasional sightings in the southwestern United States)...
