For years, Baskin, who is the founder of Big Cat Rescue, a big cat sanctuary in Tampa, FL, has made it her mission to end big cat ownership across the world.
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Ms. Phillips-Sandy is a big cat person; Ms. Jacobs is a not-so-big cat person.
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Big Cat Rescue Owner & Activist— Carole Baskin Carole Baskin, founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue, is Exotic's mortal enemy.
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Thus her organization Big Cat Rescue was born with the end goal of ending big cat ownership around the world, pitting her against Joe Exotic.
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You can certainly click on the link provided by Big Cat Rescue, fill out the form, and let federal legislators know that you are supporting the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
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A major search is underway to locate the big cat.
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It also pledged more stringent controls on big cat breeders.
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You can see updates on Big Cat Rescue's official Instagram.
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But sometimes tracks start inside the "boma," suggesting a big cat.
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Rusty was one of two foxes attacked by the big cat.
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Next stop: our Big Cat Sanctuary LIONSROCK in South Africa. pic.twitter.
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The next day, she found out the big cat was rabid.
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Swift is a big cat fan, with three of her own.
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I savor some kitty snuggles with Big Cat before getting up.
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Chilean authorities are currently investigating the big cat enclosure, as well.
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Big cat protection organization Panthera was the group to accomplish the feat.
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When big cat footprints are involved, they usually lead to a kill.
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But you just drink whiskey sometimes and you have a big cat!
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A jaguar is, of course, a part of the big cat family.
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McKinnon is playing fellow big cat enthusiast and Exotic's rival, Carole Baskin.
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A suspected big cat poacher lost his head — quite literally — in South Africa.
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The big cat was kept in a cage while at the school's prom.
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CDFW examined the animal before releasing the big cat back into a wild.
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She is tiny now, but this cub already has a big cat attitude.
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That database will now include his own violent clash with a big cat.
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Sanctuaries, institutionalized zoos, and universities would be exempt from the Big Cat Act.
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Several other big cat species only have total populations in the three digits.
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With Dylan's Nobel, we saw what happens when the big cat turns around.
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The big cat was taking a nap when an open-air vehicle pulled up.
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Thankfully for Rauenbuehler, the big cat then drags its recent kill off the porch.
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Apart from this decision, we appreciate the efforts of Big Cat and PFT Commenter.
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The big cat was skinned and his head reportedly cut off as a trophy.
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Besides the beach, top attractions include its Big Cat Rescue and the Florida Aquarium.
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There are six other African lions who live at its Big Cat Falls habitat.
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Ms. Baskin, who had earlier won a million-dollar civil judgment against Mr. Maldonado-Passage and runs Big Cat Rescue, a nonprofit, 69-acre, big cat sanctuary in Florida, said Wednesday that she had lived in fear because of Mr. Maldonado-Passage.
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Each of the three types of beast — canine, big cat and bear — offers different benefits.
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And then the big cat that comes out is like their idol, or their chief.
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But there's also another huge drawback to these big cat profile pics: they don't work.
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LG: That would have been fun, if we had a big cat on the set.
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Big Cat Rescue reports that they will not hesitate to kill prey larger than themselves.
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You will be mist," and "A big cat escaped its cage at the zoo yesterday.
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He claimed that a septic tank on the Big Cat Rescue property might hold evidence.
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Why wouldn't Big Cat and PFT Commenter do the same if they were popular enough?
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Big cat bones were allegedly found by investigators at the former site of the park.
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If you feel uncertain about going through Big Cat Rescue, the International Fund for Animal Welfare's website also provides a similar form that will make it simple for you to contact Congress and let them know you are for the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
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Raymond is a big cat, and being dropped didn't seem to bother him in the least.
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Without conservation and care, habitat loss and poaching could send this beautiful big cat into extinction.
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Grandaddy's first record came out on the same label as ours in England, Big Cat Records.
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The big cat is shown sitting on a white backdrop with a chain around its neck.
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Officials finally managed to strike the big cat with a tranquilizer dart at about 6.30 p.m.
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Big Cat Rescue is now urging everyone to contact their officials in support of the bill.
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They got married in 2000, and he's been helping Carole run Big Cat Rescue ever since.
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Other programs during the network's eighth Big Cat Week will feature lions and tigers and … leopards.
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Big-cat poaching is on the rise in South Africa — and hunters' attacks have gotten more brazen.
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The pack of big cats is heading to the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Limpopo, South Africa.
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The neonate team thought they could use a few extra paws caring for the baby big cat.
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Considering that the tiger was once the most abundant big cat in Asia, that's a huge loss.
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The big cat had been caught on video roaming the zoo on the night of the attack.
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Lewis is who Baskin originally started the wild cat breeding business that would become Big Cat Rescue.
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The big cat is a delicate species, especially susceptible to feline and infectious diseases, the vet said.
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Tiger King then introduces us to the other major "players" in the private big cat ownership industry.
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The image that went with those words showed a pair of dachshunds next to a big cat.
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Another image showcases the brothers holding a big cat, dead in Eric's arms, with the brothers smiling.
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A second big cat slept soundly in the corner, while a third stared blankly at the bars.
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After the real-life Mufasa spotted his little Simba, they big cat gave the cub a huge hug.
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There was a horse in the club, and now there's a big cat at the high school prom.
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And that's before you consider the return of a certain once-dominant big cat on the prowl again.
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In an attempt to get Typhoon off the keeper, guests threw sticks and stones at the big cat.
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The homeowner was gardening when they spotted the big cat perched on a 50-foot-high tree branch.
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Yet a number of US states allow you to keep them in captivity, according to Big Cat Rescue.
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The couple used his funds to open Big Cat Rescue, which was originally called Wildlife on Easy Street.
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Once Shimek overcame her initial fear of the big cat, she enjoyed seeing the spotted animal up close.
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This big cat probably loves boxes more than most, because one of the 3-D squares saved his life.
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The big cat is as spoiled as a domesticated kitty, and he has the Instagram account to prove it!
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While the cage appeared to be in poor condition, the tiger's rescuers said the big cat was "well-fed".
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On Monday, the two cubs honed their big cat skills whilst exploring their outdoor enclosure under Khalifa's watchful gaze.
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A spokesman for the company, Stephen Payne tells PEOPLE the tiger was owned by big cat handler Alex Lacey.
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Mercury retrograde in Leo asks us to meditate like a big cat basking in the sun, rather than roaring.
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"Ampersand" (2018) looks like a family portrait, portraying a couple with a big cat on the female figure's lap.
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"I don't follow Goop," Stewart, 78, told podcast hosts Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez and Barstool's Dan 'Big Cat' Katz.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dan "Big Cat" Katz and the internet personality known as PFTCommenter make for an odd trio.
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"The team were not empty-handed; big cat introductions tend to be highly charged and always carry risk," England wrote.
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No print is so closely linked to feminine power, perhaps because what a big-cat print really inspires is intrigue.
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Can you find the big cat sneaking up on its prey in this amazing photo by wildlife photographer Inger Vandyke?
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While Jane Doe's identity has not been confirmed, Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin claims she was the murder target.
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Footage shows Hodge walking towards the exit of the enclosure when he is suddenly pursued by the male big cat.
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Always wondered what it would be like to play your favourite childhood games like "patty cake" with a big cat?
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Through Camera CATalogue, citizen scientists can help classify wild animals to help Panthera researchers learn more about big cat populations.
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The fearless big cat has also crossed Highway 553 and the 118 Freeway, making him a bit of an outlier.
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While the species is not endangered, their populations are threatened in some areas because the big cat is often villainized.
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The big cat was also having a great fur day and probably wanted to show off his stunning coat, too.
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Nat Geo WILD's Big Cat Week is a weeklong series of programs with a feline focus running until March 12.
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Your top priority needs to be unwinding while the Moon hangs out in the sign of the big cat, Leo.
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The owner of Big Cat Rescue has posted a 3,000-word blog titled "Refuting Netflix Tiger King" on her website.
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On Sunday a video featuring Baskin's current husband, Howard Baskin, was posted on The Big Cat Rescue's verified Facebook page.
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The tiger farm, according to Big Cat Rescue, has operated under the guise of an animal rescue for some time.
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The seven-part series pulls back the curtain on the outlandish world of big cat breeding and the people involved.
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Their interaction with the animal sent the big cat running for cover a bathroom, where it accidentally locked itself inside.
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The roof of a safari vehicle traveling through the Serengeti in Tanzania became the perfect perch for a big cat.
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While the Netflix docuseries mainly focused on notorious big cat collector Joe Exotic, it does emphasize that at the end of the day, millions of dollars were spent in a legal battle between Exotic and Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin, and none of that seemed to really help the true victims: the big cats.
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" Cheetahs, unlike their big cat cousins, are increasingly desired for their companionship—a consequence of their supposed ability to "tame easily.
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The big cat was prowling Aarey Colony, a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, when it tripped Nayan Khanolkar's camera.
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In 2007 a South African rugby star sprinted against a cheetah to raise awareness about the decline of the big cat.
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Staff from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife had to tranquilize the big cat before firefighters could get close to it.
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Omar has his own Instagram account, which shows that being such a big cat comes with a unique set of problems.
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The big cat was seen on zoo grounds in surveillance footage during the overnight hours between March 2 and March 3.
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Arrests, prosecutions and convictions of poachers are on the rise, and big cat populations — where diligently protected — are on the rebound.
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The Cincinnati Zoo is a leading captive breeder of cheetahs, a big cat that is native to the savannahs of Africa.
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Barstool Sports also has one of the most popular sports podcasts: "Pardon My Take," hosted by Big Cat and PFT Commenter.
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" Baskin and Big Cat Rescue called Maldonado-Passage's business "one of the most notorious cub petting roadside zoos in the country.
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Staunchly anti-big cat ownership, Baskin considered herself Exotic's natural enemy and did everything in her power to shut down his exotic animal park; she spoke out against him as often as she could and even sued him in 2011 for trademark infringement after he used her company's (Big Cat Rescue) name and logo to promote the G.W. Zoo.
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"It's not a great idea, but it's definitely entertainment," Paul said in the video of his pet dog meeting the big cat.
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She shared videos of herself climbing over the wooden fence Saturday, then waving and dancing once inside as the big cat gawked.
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We are doing a show with Big Cat and PFT, and we do have final say on the content of that show.
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There are 755 recorded incidents involving humans and captive big cats since 1990 in the US alone, according to Big Cat Rescue.
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Instead, they'll be brought to Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary, a 12,355-acre reserve that already houses six other lions and two tigers.
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Johnson admitted to having binge watched Netflix's wildly addicting docuseries about the eccentric characters at the center of America's big cat world.
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They'll tell you the big "Cat," as he is nicknamed, is a shrewd businessman, a tough negotiator and a candid-speaking riot.
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But in a blog post on the Big Cat Rescue site, Baskin refutes many of these claims and insinuations from the docuseries.
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The Big Cat Act would also make cub-petting, or any kind of close interaction the public has with the animals, illegal.
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Rangers at Ujung Kulon National Park in West Java last month photographed a big cat unlike any previously seen in the preserve.
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It was on Mt. Lee that Steve Winter, a big-cat photographer for National Geographic , set up a flash-equipped camera trap.
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As Sri Lanka's top predator, and its only big cat, the leopard "plays a key role" in Sri Lanka's ecosystem, says Watson.
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Still going strong: trainers your dad would wear with tube socks and the flatform, as seen here in a big-cat print.
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While the home had been deserted for a while, the caged big cat had several packages of meat, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.
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While Costelloe was filming his son, who had his back to the tiger enclosure, a big cat snuck up on the boy.
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When you think of big cat battles, you probably imagine two snarling, clawing, ferocious beasts protecting what is theirs in this savage world.
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A jogger in Colorado suffocated an 80-pound mountain lion with his bare hands after the big cat attacked him on a trail.
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Interestingly, Bol asked the caretakers at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida to test out the silver vine on some of its animals.
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A guest staying at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area snapped these photos and shared them with Panthera, an organization devoted to big cat conservation.
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And so was the isotopically anomalous big cat, which had clearly been fed on animals (perhaps turkeys) that had, themselves, fed on maize.
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This big cat was placed on the endangered species list on 1972, and since then, a conservation effort has been put in place.
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Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio remembered Cecil's death on Instagram Wednesday, using it as a reminder of the devastation of the big cat population.
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He roams the screen like a big cat at the zoo who's only recently realized that nobody's been locking his cage at night.
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Actual fighter-plane engines "sounded kind of wimpy", she recalls, so she concocted her own substitute from big-cat growls and monkey screeches.
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They will be taken to Johannesburg from Lima, Peru, before reaching their final destination: the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in Limpopo, South Africa.
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Goode told The Guardian, "It just blew my mind" and that made him want to figure out the puzzle behind big cat owners.
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It centers around one main character, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, the former owner of an Oklahoma big cat park better known as Joe Exotic.
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Installed at what would be around eye level for a big cat, the video monitor puts the viewer in the caged animal's place.
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"It is important to understand that this is not the isolated act of one crazy bad apple," Baskin wrote on Big Cat Rescue's website.
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Big Cat Rescue is a sanctuary dedicated to caring for abandoned and abused cats and Baskin has been critical of Joe for many years.
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Big Cat Rescue of Tampa Florida is an educational non-breeding sanctuary that takes in abused and abandoned lions, tigers and other large felines.
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The aforementioned Lamborghini owner shows great affection toward his big cat, reaching over to the passenger's seat while driving to stroke its furry cheek.
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No one was found in the home with the tiger, but officers say they did discover several packages of meat near the big cat.
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While the keeper cleaning did not see the big cat, another keeper spotted the animal charging at the employee and called out, reports News4Jax.
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If you've seen the show, you know Joe -- real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage -- is one of the biggest names in the big cat business.
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Despite the dangers of his work — from disease, attacks by predators and iffy airplanes — he reveled at being in proximity to a big cat.
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We further hope she urges the public to support the Big Cat Public Safety Act that would end the cub petting abuse in America.
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Joe's antagonist is Carole Baskin, who runs Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Florida, and is trying to have the Tiger King's empire shut down.
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It was also drawn to Barstool&aposs personalities like Portnoy and Daniel "Big Cat" Katz, and its legion of 66 million monthly unique visitors.
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Hungry and lonely, the big cat descended from its natural hunting grounds high in the Santa Cruz Mountains in search of food and friendship.
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David Harbour, aka Chief Hopper on "Stranger Things," let a big cat out of the bag Wednesday when he accidentally talked about season 3.
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Oklahoma zookeeper and a one-time presidential candidate who calls himself Joe Exotic allegedly tried to have a woman running a big cat sanctuary killed.
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Cullen was able to get the paws up from his new little, big cat buddy and is now residing with the cheetah in his exhibit.
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The subject is especially important to Loveridge since he studied Cecil for eight years before the big cat was cruelly taken away from the world.
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Although he is the only known living wild jaguar in the United States, he isn't the only big cat roaming the mountains in his neighborhood.
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Besides, fans of the '80s cult classic TV series Beauty and the Beast have long known he looks quite a bit like a big cat.
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So, these six little cubs are pretty great news for the global big cat population — and for humans who love squealing at images of them.
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Thanks to this technology, KopeLion knows the nursing lioness is Nosikitok, a big cat who gave birth to three cubs of her own in June.
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It was the only big cat biologists had observed consistently crossing the 101 Freeway to escape and re-enter the Santa Monica Mountains, Kuykendall said.
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Lewis was married to Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin, the intended target of the murder-for-hire plot at the center of the docuseries.
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Big Cat Rescue, according to the foundation's site, is one of the largest accredited sanctuaries with the mission of saving abused and abandoned big cats.
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At the end of the day, Tiger King means to expose the exploitive business of big cat ownership, and many would say that it succeeds.
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Don Lewis, an animal-loving millionaire who owned and ran a big cat sanctuary in Florida with his wife Carole, disappeared on August 18, 1997.
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Like the jogger in Colorado who killed an 80-pound mountain lion with his bare hands after the big cat attacked him on a trail.
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Related: Meet the Artist Making Giant Sculptures Out of Animal Bones Endangered Species Paintings Document Disappearing Ideologies Big Cat Sculptures Prowl to Preserve an Endangered Leopard
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And at least one published paper suggests big-cat dander may also contain Fel d 1, or a protein similar enough to provoke an allergic reaction.
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The death of Mohawk, a majestic 13-year-old big cat so named because of the shape of his black mane, sparked an outcry among Kenyans.
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South African officials vowed to put him down once they capture him, prompting a Twitter hashtag #SaveSylvester and an online petition to rescue the big cat.
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It's got guitar solos, tracks called "Tough Guy" and "Big Cat," and what can only be described as a dance routine in the lead single's video.
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Surveillance video showed the big cat chasing terrified men around the private school's swimming pool, leaping on them and mauling them as they tried to escape.
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White tigers are Bengal tigers — not albinos or a separate species, as commonly thought, according to the Wildcat Sanctuary, a big-cat rescue facility in Minnesota.
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Exotic's antic raised the ire of fellow big cat lover and proclaimed "conservationist" Carole Baskin, and she made it her personal agenda to take him down.
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Also: when we're done, we both look around to see Big Cat sitting on the bed, looking at us expectantly with his favorite toy beside him.
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Check out the insane video ... the boy and his father were visiting The Dublin Zoo and stopped for a quick photo-op with the big cat.
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The shock of that reveal is a highlight of the issue, not least because Veidt is holding a baby version of his genetically modified big cat Bubastis.
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The local Games organizing committee is now investigating the incident, but animal welfare advocates say the big cat should never have been there in the first place.
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Some big cat couples have taken a full six to eight months to complete the process of meeting each other and then moving into an enclosure together.
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Big Cat Green Island Reef Cruises have also uploaded a secondary video of the inquisitive whale so Migaloo fans can see alabaster mammal from every flattering angle.
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His timeline was filled with what looked like big cat claws for sale, some of which looked hastily hacked off, still carrying a bit of hairy knuckle.
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Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations recognized the value of this "indomitable beast," as big cat expert Alan Rabinowitz calls the jaguar, and many cultures still celebrate the elusive predator.
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When a group of officers arrived at a neighborhood in Loveland, Colorado -- after a call of a mountain lion attack -- they tried to contain the big cat.
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One is about dueling big cat enthusiasts (and probable murderers), while the other is about a talented college cheerleading team determined to win big at Daytona Nationals.
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Tiger King explores the dark secrets of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, run by larger than life big cat owner Joe Exotic (real name Joseph Schreibvogel).
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Because the big-cat owners are showmen (beyond the zoo, Joe fancies himself a country-and-western singer), there's a whole lot of vamping for the cameras.
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Staff from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife tranquilized the big cat before firefighters approached it using a ladder, the fire department said in a Facebook post.
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A big cat expert and a wild jaguar cross paths in a forest in Belize and end up sitting down, looking into each other's eyes — in peace.
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"When the directors of the Netflix documentary Tiger King came to us five years ago they said they wanted to make the big cat version of Blackfish (the documentary that exposed abuse at SeaWorld) that would expose the misery caused by the rampant breeding of big cat cubs for cub petting exploitation and the awful life the cats lead in roadside zoos and back yards if they survive," the blog begins.
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The San Diego Zoo is part of the Cheetah Breeding Center Coalition (CBCC), which includes nine breeding facilities that work to prevent the extinction of the big cat.
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Some were destined for new homes in sanctuaries in Israel and Jordan, and the tiger will be flown to Four Paws' Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa.
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Wildlife expert Jeff Corwin and Animal Planet's big cat expert Dave Salmoni offered a number of possibilities for why this cougar could have tracked and attacked the bikers.
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The Big Cat Public Safety Act would make it illegal to keep as pets or allow public contact with any lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, pumas or cougars.
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In a post on her Big Cat Rescue website, she drops some alleged tea about Don's final months before he disappeared, and what she describes as erratic behavior.
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In a post on her Big Cat Rescue website, she drops some alleged tea about Don's final months before he disappeared, and what she describes as erratic behavior.
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The inclusion of a low-slung terrier, a big cat and a TOQUE in this puzzle made me think of the movie "Ratatouille," if you ever saw it.
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At the heart of it is Exotic (real name Joe Schreibvogel), who made his name as one of the most famous big cat owners in the United States.
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Among his many frustrations with Baskin: before Big Cat Rescue, Baskin also bred big cats, and even now, profits off the animals in her sanctuary by charging visitors.
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For those who watched already, we know that Baskin's story arc in Tiger King is not solely focused on the ethics of big cat ownership and her park.
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A longtime dream to photograph the black panther Will Burrard-Lucas, who shot the images of the black leopard, described his longtime dream to photograph the big cat.
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Autry allegedly shared videos of herself climbing over the wooden fence on the day of the incident, then waving and dancing once inside as the big cat gawked.
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Edward and Kathy Sudduth of Sonora heard a loud slam and were soon met by the big cat, which they think must have been chasing a neighbor's pet.
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The bill would help protect public safety, global big cat conservation efforts, and the animals themselves, who are often subjected to abusive and inhumane conditions in private captivity.
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At one point the big cat ended up inside of a building and forest department rangers were attempting to trap the animal when it emerged onto the building's roof.
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NatGeo WILD's Boone Smith stopped by the PEOPLE Now studio recently to celebrate Big Cat Week with a few special guests: two baby leopards and a Bengal tiger cub.
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But according to reports, shortly after the ceremony the sedated big cat -- normally captive at a zoo -- bolted for freedom as it was being placed back in its cage.
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Surveillance video of Sunday's attack showed the big cat chasing terrified men around the private school's swimming pool, leaping on them and mauling them as they tried to escape.
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The animals will be taken to the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa where ADI officials said they will enjoy natural enclosures with drinking pools, platforms and toys.
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He built up a network of bloggers in other cities, like Dan Katz in Chicago and Kevin Clancy in New York — Big Cat and KFC, per their Barstool nicknames.
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As of September 27, 2019, the Big Cat Public Safety Act has 138 cosponsors in the House, which means that there's a chance that it could eventually get passed.
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In fact, Big Cat Rescue has recorded eight injurious incidents involving captive big cats so far this year — often from privately owned animals who "turn" on their doting caretakers.
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The firm has three other clients: Big Cat Rescue, a nonprofit animal sanctuary; the payday loan company Community Choice Financial; and the consulting firm and government contractor Redhorse Corporation.
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The wildlife cinematographer Robert Poole follows a mother jaguar in the Pantanal region of Brazil in this nature documentary, presented as part of Nat Geo Wild's Big Cat Week.
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The big cat slipped through a door that had been left ajar to let in fresh air and entered a bedroom where Mr. Pesso's wife and daughter were sleeping.
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Back again for the umpteenth time are animal patterns, more notably of the big cat variety: cheetah, leopard, tiger, and other ambiguous spotted prints that fall under the "cat" umbrella.
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"I didn't feel scared, it didn't seem like it was aggressive," Deborah Moore, who spotted the big cat while walking to her home from a neighbor's place, told the newspaper.
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On day three of his tour of Nepal, Prince Harry crouched down to imitate a big cat as he was shown how conservationists track the animal in a country park.
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A photo released Thursday by Idaho Fish and Game shows the big cat had another set of fully-formed teeth and whiskers growing out of the top of its head.
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Male jaguars can reach six feet long, not including their tails, and weigh up to 250 pounds; the animal is the only so-called "big cat" native to the Americas.
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Many of the 191 Barstool commenters (before comments were shut off) to this post from the Barstool president seemed to agree that Big Cat and PFT are big-time stars.
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It was the first time the execs had met, though Portnoy and Barstool personality Dan "Big Cat" Katz had visited some of Penn National&aposs casinos ahead of the meeting.
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A team of biologists shot rare footage of the sleek big cat after spending months watching and waiting, said Nick Pilfold, a global conservation scientist at the San Diego Zoo.
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The zookeeper is currently jailed for allegedly seeking a hit on the CEO of Big Cat Rescue, Carole Baskin, with whom he'd feuded over his "mistreatment" and "exploitation" of animals.
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Franco Luis Ferrada, 20, stripped down and made his way to the top of the zoo's big cat enclosure, where he began taunting the lions in an apparent suicide attempt.
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He prefers to slink around the cage like a big cat between meals, until he decides—almost on a whim—that it's time to make a run at ending the fight.
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Alfie Crow, Jaguars fan and editor of Big Cat Country, a blog covering the Jaguars, downplayed suggestions that the deal could herald a permanent move to London for the NFL team.
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Mothers eating their cubs isn't unheard of, and can be sparked by a number of reasons, according to Big Cat Rescue, an accredited sanctuary that rescues abused and abandoned big cats.
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The series, which is streaming now, follows two key players: Joe Exotic (an infamous giant cat collector and zoo keeper) and his nemesis Carole Baskin (the founder of Big Cat Rescue).
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Joe Exotic may be the subject of the Netflix original docu-series Tiger King, but the big cat enthusiast isn't the only character in the project making waves on the Internet.
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Cardi has some strong opinions about the show, which shows the unfolding feud between Joe Exotic, a zoo owner in Oklahoma, and Carole Baskin, who runs a big cat rescue organization.
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For all the exploration of the world of big-cat lovers that Tiger King attempts, it never succeeds in giving us a sense of why things are the way they are.
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I give the cats their treats (I do this every day, secretly slipping Big Cat his pill with the treats; Little Cat gets treats just for being a cute good boy).
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One afternoon, the British big cat trainer Alexander Lacey and his wife, Katie, who works with the "fuzzies" — alpacas and the like — plopped onto a couch in Davis Vassallo's dressing room.
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The Saint Louis Zoo just announced that its four-year-old female big cat, whose name means "champion" in Swahili, gave birth to a record-breaking litter of eight cubs on Nov.
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This pack of bobcats were hanging out in a mesquite tree in Texas as mom taught her juvenile cubs the tricks of the trade for being a big cat in the wild.
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San Bernardino County Fire officials had to remove a large mountain lion from a backyard in Hesperia, California, after residents spotted the big cat perched on a 50-foot-high tree branch.
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Hamilton was south of the border at the Black Jaguar White Tiger Foundation when he decided to roll the dice and creep up on a big cat named Nicole ... just for laughs.
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It is not illegal to own a Caracal in the state of Illinois, though similar animals, such as leopards, ocelots, jaguars, lynx, bobcats, and cheetahs, are prohibited, according to Big Cat Rescue.
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Caracals, who are excellent jumpers, were also once trained for bird hunting in Iran and India and are capable of knocking down 10-12 birds at once, according to Big Cat Rescue.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An animatronic leopard stopped Londoners in their tracks on Wednesday in Trafalgar Square, where it sat roaring as part of satellite TV channel Nat Geo Wild's Big Cat Week campaign.
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"We never make (a big cat) do what it doesn't want to do," he said, his face with a faint, cellophane shine of mocha-tinted makeup that didn't match his neck skin.
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Many guests at Jamala are big cat fans (apparently tiger tattoos are more common than you'd think), though plenty of others are highly enamoured with the world's tallest living terrestrial animals too.
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"The Bachelorette" star Becca Kufrin let a big cat out of the bag Tuesday afternoon when she was spotted shooting for the show in the hometown of one of her hopeful suitors.
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In the video, you can see the owner driving the vehicle, allowing the 2-year-old lion (named Filya) into the car and even giving the big cat a pat on the head.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jerry Richardson's nickname is "Big Cat" but no one associated with the Carolina Panthers, the team he founded and owns, would dare to call him anything but "Mr. Richardson".
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The Point in Big Cat, $145, available at Rothy'sGift Cards, $50-$165, available at Rothy'sRothy's has repurposed nearly 40 million plastic water bottles to make women's shoes that are both stylish and comfortable.
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Instead, he used a lot of glitter, The Pointer Sisters (on the soundtrack), Zayn Malik and Julianne Moore (in the audience), and big-cat double entendres to comb over a lack of ideas.
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VICE News Tonight spoke with the former deputy head of Iran's Department of Environment and a Human Rights Watch researcher to learn how these celebrated big-cat conservationists found themselves on death row.
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Consider two instructive pieces of legislation discussed by members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife last week: the Big Cat Public Safety Act and the SAVE Right Whales Act.
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A rep for Carole's Big Cat Rescue tells TMZ ... the org would very much feel like it would be cruel to use real big cats in a television series about cruelty to big cats.
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New Delhi (CNN)A tiger in India traveled more than 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) in search of a mate -- the longest such walk ever recorded by a big cat in India, according to researchers.
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Carole Baskin, founder of Big Cat Rescue, said, "I think it could be the beginning of a mating ritual, because despite the cursing they are also head butting, which is a friendly greeting," she suggested.
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To be fair, the woman jumped into the space between the exterior fence and the interior fence, meaning there was a thin layer of braided wire separating her from death-by-250-pound-big-cat.
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On the eve of ESPN22017's debut of the late-night show Barstool Van Talk, featuring Pardon My Take podcast hosts Dan "Big Cat" Katz and PFT Commenter, Sam Ponder spoke out against the company.
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Sweetcaroline29 pointed out that while Crawley is a hairdresser, Baskin makes her living as the owner of the animal rescue organization Big Cat Rescue, which allows her to work with big cats and other animals.
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Since I am still rocking a crazy Who bun, I throw on makeup (Charlotte Tilbury primer, foundation, Benefit brow, Too Faced mascara, and Sephora eyeliner for a big cat eye), gold hoops, and some perfume.
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The man in this video is NOT the lion king, but for a few intense, near-death moments ... he thought he was while sitting nose-to-nose with a big cat in its zoo enclosure.
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On one wall, a monitor installed low to the ground broadcasts two identical videos of a Panthera ("big cat") sanctuary in Florida, formatted for virtual reality goggles and pulled from a live feed ("Untitled," 2017).
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There's a big Steve Jobs statue on the top floor titled "El Capitan," a room with big cat taxidermy, which is a reference to earlier OS X software releases, and other tiny nods to Apple's history.
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The Australian country music singer took to Twitter on Wednesday, posting a photo of his wife, Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, and a cake with the words "Happy Birthday Big Cat Daddy" written in white icing.
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"Because Big Cat Rescue has been a leader in working to stop what we view as abuse of big cats and we have been very effective in our work," Baskin said in a Facebook Live video.
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After learning about Exotic and his zoo (the GW Zoo, located in Oklahoma), Baskin (the founder of a wild cat sanctuary called Big Cat Rescue) spent years trying to take him down, no matter the cost.
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Underneath the surface tune of Tiger King, which is about rivalry and murder and conflicting visions of what makes a good life for a big cat, this ugly note of toxic control grows louder and louder.
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The Wampus cat is the legendary "big cat" of the rural US that still maintains the status of a recurring folkloric legend, as anyone who's grown up near a wooded area, swamp, or mountainous region can attest.
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He's the concerned parent, worried about what his child will find around the next corner, the big cat who knows he has to let go just a little but can't find it in himself to do so.
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Ten-year-old lion Boby lies in a cage at Tirana's zoo on May 7 before his transfer along with two other lions to the Felida Big Cat Center in Netherlands by animal welfare association Four Paws.
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"When our husbandry teams clean big cat enclosures they follow a safety protocol that involves moving the cats into a separate space and securing them before humans enter the adjacent space," the center said in a statement.
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"'Tiger King' exposes the furry underbelly of a big-cat community I'd never known about, in which the lines between loving wild animals and exploiting them are never quite clear," Rachel Syme wrote for The New Yorker.
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For those who haven't watched yet ... zoo owner/big cat breeder Joe Exotic flaunts his country music songs and videos on 'Tiger King,' but it turns out he's just lip-syncing and pretending to play the guitar.
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They have been studying leopards for over a decade and were responsible for gathering the data that put the native big cat on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of endangered species in 2008.
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According to the BBC, a senior member of the Dudley Zoo's firearms team shot and killed Margaash the snow leopard after the 8-year-old big cat escaped his enclosure through a door left open by keeper error.
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In the video, the boy who was reported to be visiting the zoo with his family, was staring at the lion through a glass panel, until he broke eye contact and turned his back on the big cat.
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The former zoo owner/big cat enthusiast/magician/country singer has plenty of folks interested in his case, including Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B who recently tweeted about starting a GoFundMe account to help him win his freedom.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A few hours of freedom ended for two Bengal tigers that escaped from a big cat shelter in the Dutch countryside on Saturday, when police managed to sedate them and get them back in their enclosure.
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There's one big risk facing Barstool Sports in achieving that goal of being the biggest sports brand on that list by 2021: what if Big Cat and PFT Commenter leave to start their own media podcast start-up?
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Harambe's death isn't unlike that of Cecil the lion, a beloved big cat that was killed by an American dentist last year, or Marius, a giraffe at a Copenhagen zoo that zoo officials killed to feed lions in 2014.
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Though the series ends up following notorious wild cat collector Joe Exotic and his nemesis Carole Baskin, a big cat sanctuary owner, the directors of The Tiger King originally hoped to focus on something with a few more scales.
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After Baskin sued the infamous zookeeper for using the Big Cat Rescue logo as a marketing ploy for $33 million, Exotic began openly threatening her life on YouTube and was later convicted of attempting to pay for her murder.
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"There are awesome sanctuaries all over the world who take care of lions in a magnificent way, but it's good to have the lions back in Africa where they belong," Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary co-founder Minunette Heuser told CNN.
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The little guy, despite starting the video off with a lion clinging to his back like a determined toddler, successfully fends off what seems like the majority of a pride of female lions intent on making him big cat food.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A mountain lion found its way onto the grounds of a Los Angeles high school on Friday, prompting police to lock down the campus before the big cat was shot with tranquilizer darts a few blocks away.
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There are all kinds of cat beds out there, but the PetFusion Ultimate Cat Scratcher Lounge is our top pick with its unique dual-purpose design as a scratcher and a nice big cat bed your kitty can stretch out on.
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There are all kinds of cat beds out there, but the PetFusion Ultimate Cat Scratcher Lounge is our top pick with its unique dual-purpose design as a scratcher and a nice big cat bed your kitty can stretch out on.
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A documentary that was solely about Joe would be pretty memorable on its own, but he's surrounded by characters who are nearly as colorful, including the operators of several other big cat parks, as well as his nemesis, Carole Baskin.
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Cooper, a Caldecott Honor winner ("Big Cat, Little Cat"), packs in facts about the river and the logistics of such a journey, but its heart lies in the mysterious draw of the natural world, with all its beauty and its challenges.
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Take, say, the roster of the Memphis Maniax (yes, also with an X), which featured a Big Cat (née Antonio Anderson), Chaka (née Shante Carver), Christian (née John Williams), ChronicY2K1 (née Charles Jordan) and the highly quotable Kev Cobb (née Kevin Cobb).
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Getting an accreditation doesn't mean a sanctuary is safe—fatal big cat attacks have occurred on sanctuaries with this recognition—but Serio's heavily publicized cat compound stands out as particularly irresponsible because he allows untrained visitors to frolic with full-grown cats.
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Mike Williams, who, with his partner, Rebecca Lang, wrote a book about the Australian big-cat phenomenon, told me that "people's observational skills are fairly low," a diplomatic way of explaining why someone can see a panther while looking at a house cat.
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"Joe Exotic": He's an Oklahoma-based zookeeper specializing in big cats who, for years, has been at war with animal rights activist Carole Baskin, a woman who runs Big Cat Rescue, a sanctuary for tigers, lions, and other exotic cats outside Tampa, Florida.
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Besides Tinder's call to remove tigers from its app and New York's ban on big cat interactions, since 2017 Instagram has done its part by alerting users searching for hashtags like #tigerselfie that the content may be associated with harm to animals.
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With therapy he found his voice — a particularly forceful and articulate one — as a leading big cat conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the Bronx Zoo, and, since 2006, for Panthera, the wild cat conservation organization that he co-founded.
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Aside from the accusations, Baskin is still a huge advocate for the protection of wild cats and frequently visits Washington D.C. as part of her plan to push the Big Cat Safety Act, which would restrict the ownership of exotic cats, through.
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As you can see in the wild video from the incident ... the woman is staring down the lion in his enclosure, and she does a few dance moves only a few feet away from the massive beast, seemingly taunting the big cat.
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"The evidence showed that over the course of many years, he has tried to coerce others into killing me, and in the end, resorted to hiring others to kill me," Ms. Baskin said in a video posted on the Big Cat Rescue website.
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His permanent placement is pending possible court action," the HSUS wrote in a statement about the tiger's relocation, adding that if the ranch ends up being the animal's permanent home, the big cat will have a "naturally wooded habitat complex that emulates a native environment.
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After happily losing myself in the spatial and chromatic intricacies of "Owl Lake," I moved on to "Tree With Sleeping Leopard" (143, 214 x 2127 inches), in which a big cat, surrounded by foliage, dozes on a branch, one foreleg and paw dangling languidly.
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"'Big Cat' the song was about the first track we wrote for the record, and probably the first where we really hit upon the sonic template—synth bass, sequencers, rude guitars, minimal drums, swaggering songs with Hayden singing about his pain," explains co-vocalist Tom.
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On Wednesday, it: In addition, various reports, including this one from Bryan Curtis, said that the Pardon My Take guys (Big Cat and PFT Commenter) from Barstool Sports were close to signing a deal with ESPN to do a late-night show on ESPN2.
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The Big Cat Public Safety Act is an important federal measure that will solve two major problems we have today: People are allowed to have big cats as pets, and people can make money off of their big cats by exposing them to the public.
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Vince tells us the band's had some prior success getting their work featured in some small films and TV shows like "Justified," but he believes 'Tiger King' could really be a big break ... and help him become a big cat in the music biz.
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DENVER (Reuters) - A 31-year-old man who fended off and suffocated a mountain lion when it attacked him on a Colorado jogging trail last week described on Thursday how he killed the big cat by stepping on its throat during a life-and-death struggle.
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"The track represents to us a kind of nihilistic strut; you'll take what's yours, and hang the consequences (until, as they always do, they find their way back to you...)" 'Big Cat' the video was shot in beautiful Catalonia, Spain, directed by the extraordinary Pablo Maestres.
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Around 80 camera "traps" are now in operation on 13 Costa Rica properties belonging to eco-lodges, ranches, conservation organizations and private individuals who are cooperating to create a more accurate picture of big-cat populations in an area that draws eco-tourists from around the world.
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As we binge the Netflix series that follows Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, as he becomes embroiled in a murder-for-hire plot, we can't help but wonder about everyone else involved in Exotic's plans to become one of America's most famous big cat zoos.
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We can laugh with Kate McKinnon as she shovels Chinese noodles into her mouth; lie down with lions with the big-cat trainer at Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus; leap with dancers like Mikhail Baryshnikov and Misty Copeland; or groove to the rapping of Joey Badass.
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Simi Valley Police Department said officers found the big cat — who was wearing a tracking collar, a device are used by the National Park Service to study mountain lions in Southern California — lying in the yard and eating the dog when they arrived at the home.
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TIRANA (Reuters) - Zhaku, Lenci and Bobby, three lions whose miserable plight in a private Albanian zoo stirred uproar and led the Albanian government to order their rescue, began their journey to a Dutch big cat center on Tuesday, from where they will hopefully be returned to the wild.
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Sometimes items need combining to solve a story-blocking puzzle, but once it all clicks in your head, the logic jumps up and down on the skull like a blood-lusting big cat on a children's inflatable castle: It's all you can see, terrifyingly apparent now you've noticed it.
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It's believed that the legend comes from a wildcat species that roamed England in medieval times, but some studies from more recent times suggest that the British Big Cat might just be a descendant of the Canadian lynx, a giant cat brought to England more than a century ago.
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"As habitat across the world continues to disappear and more pressure is being put on species of wildlife, including all of the cats, we're seeing more incidents of human-wildlife conflict on a daily basis," said Giles Clark, managing director of the Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden, England.
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Pursuits About 23 feet from the buildings of a remote eco-lodge in southern Costa Rica, an automatic camera last year shot a picture of a passing jaguar, a spectacular big cat that is one of the country's most endangered animals, and the focus of strenuous conservation efforts.
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In the spirit of bipartisanship, we ask our fellow legislators to consider joining as cosponsors and working to enact the following reforms, which all enjoy bipartisan support: The Big Cat Safety Act This bill limits breeding and prohibits the possession of vulnerable big cats like tigers and lions.
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He has reportedly raised the cat since it was young, and claims it is "completely tame," via a translated quote from the state-run English site RT. Neighbors say they are collectively filing a police report, and local veterinarian authority claims it has not approved any permits for the big cat.
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Attached to the complaint are dozens of pages of exhibits with screenshots showing photos of what appears to be lion fangs sitting below Facebook posts for Google and Pizza Hut, big cat claws for sale appearing just above an ad for Uber, a smooth grey rhino horn resting on a scale.
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A lifelong animal lover, I was immediately drawn to the possibility of exposing the misery caused by the rampant breeding of big cat cubs for exploitation and the awful lives these majestic creatures are forced to endure in roadside zoos and back yards if they survive their time used for petting.
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Tigers and other wildlife are frequently shown in cages, there is blatant aggression shown towards captive animals late in the series, and there is a shot early on of deceased exotic animals as part of a news story related to Baskin's efforts to pass the Big Cat Public Safety Act.
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"If you look at both boxes together, you can look at it as one big cat state spread across the boxes—or you can look at it as two boxes, each with a cat state correlated such that their fates are entangled to each other," study co-author Yvonne Gao told me.
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Within a couple of years, she was one of the world's top big cat trainers, never happier than when she was behind steel bars with a dozen or more tigers, commanding them in her chirpy voice to leap through fiery hoops, walk on wires, roll large balls and arrange themselves in a pyramid.
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Tom McClintockThomas (Tom) Milller McClintockLive coverage: Mueller testifies before Congress 58 GOP lawmakers vote against disaster aid bill Conservation happens one animal at a time MORE (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the committee, mischaracterized the Big Cat Public Safety Act as a political tactic by "big business zoos" to put their smaller competitors out of business.
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The dizzying encounter between the macaw and the laser at PS1, like the video of the "big cat" sanctuary and many of Smith's works encompassing animals, seems to address ecological issues: the destruction of wildlife environments through deforestation and global warming; the exploitation and extinction of animals as a result of human interference in their habitats.
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Lollicam's features include face-tracking stickers, such as the big cat mask pictured at the top of this post; cinematic effects; and real-time filters such as a beautification lens that airbrushes skin in real-time or changes your face shape to make it less of a chore to snap the perfect selfie/film a selfie video message you're willing to send.
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In "The Rumor," from 2009, a poem about a "big cat," probably a mountain lion, in the nearby countryside, he describes the remnants of a deer's corpse at the base of a beech tree: Consider thus the tufts and tail piece, hooves cleft from the legs, the legs what's left of them where they dropped con- centric beneath the beech.
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While it seems like getting on a lion's back might be the safest place when locked in a struggle with the king of the jungle, you might want to reassess your strategy once you realize that the neck strength and girth of a big cat is likely to render them immune to your choke, even if you can get your arm around it.
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The new docuseries exposes the dark world of exotic animal ownership and its most notorious players — in particular, Joe "Exotic" Maldonado-Passage: big cat breeder, purveyor of "Tiger King" underwear, and former owner of the G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, OK, who also currently happens to be serving 22 years in prison for plotting a murder-for-hire (which was ultimately foiled).
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Big cats, it turns out, are a kind of aphrodisiac, inspiring what can only be described as cultish devotion -- including Joe's marriage to not one but two men; another big-cat owner, Bhagavan "Doc" Antle, who is basically a polygamist; and Jeff Lowe, who comes into Joe's orbit later and brags about using exotic pets as a come-on to find partners for threesomes.
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For big cat, it's about acting naturally "Obviously koalas are not native to this area, so it's not part of their regular habitat, but I do want to emphasize that this is not an indication of any abnormal or aggressive behavior on the part of whatever animal ate the koala bear, although it is very sad and I'm sure the public is grieving, as is the zoo family," Kuykendall said.
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It's hard to know, frankly, where to begin with all the strange twists and turns, but directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin rightly assume that it's easiest to work backward from the (almost) end: Joseph Maldonado-Passage, an eccentric keeper of tigers, lions and other big cats in Oklahoma who goes by the name "Joe Exotic," allegedly having orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin, a woman who runs a facility called Big Cat Rescue, who had lobbied to shut down operations like his.
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