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Lion close up Heart of Africa

Is That an Old Lion? | How to Age a Lion

African lions

How to AGe a Lion and Why Age Matters How do you recognize an old lion? Knowing the age of a lion is important for research. An African lion’s age is a critical metric for accurately estimating wildlife life history and behavior.  Knowing an animal’s age allows us to understand reproduction, survival and life span, movement and population size. Successful…
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Altai Biosphere Reserve

Pallas’s Cat : One of the World’s Most Secretive Cats

Smaller Big Cats

One of the World’s Most Secretive Cats The secretive Pallas’s Cats can be found primarily in the grassland and shrub-land steppe of Central Asia, but is found as far west as Western Iran and previously was known to inhabit Armenia and Azerbaijan.  The core populations of Pallas’s Cat  exist in Mongolia and China where they can live in elevation of…
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