Big Cats

Tiger Cub Noms Hand

by Holy Cuteness on May 13, 2012

A cute tiger cub at a Japanese zoo loves the taste of human hand — and the watch is pretty interesting too.

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Bottle Feeding White Tiger cubs

by Holy Cuteness on May 9, 2012

Check out these four rare white tiger cubs who are happily nomming their bottles at a zoo in Ukraine — adorbs!

Via Buzzfeed.

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These Cubs Will Melt Your Heart

by Holy Cuteness on April 30, 2012

Check out this awesome video of lion, leopard, and cheetah cubs at play in Kenya’s Masai Mara — cyoot!

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This fluffy creature is the Brookfield Zoo‘s first black-footed cat. He was born on February 14 and had to be hand-reared because his 4-year-old mother, Cleo, wasn’t providing proper maternal care.

Via ZooBorns.

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This week, Busch Gardens Tampa is celebrating a milestone anniversary for a very special relationship. Monday, April 16 marked the one-year anniversary of the first time park guests got to see an 8-week-old male cheetah cub and a 16-week-old female yellow Labrador puppy start to strike up a friendship that the park’s animal experts expect to last a lifetime.

The pair – later named Kasi and Mtani by park fans via a Facebook poll – spent only supervised play times together at first. Now, a year later, they live together full time at the park’s CheetahRun habitat and even travel together to schools, events and television studios, helping the park’s education team teach the public about the plight of cheetahs in the wild and the importance of Busch Gardens’ conservation efforts.

Park guest can see Kasi and Mtani daily at Cheetah Run, where they spend a portion of each day playing together on the habitat, training with their keepers and exercising with the habitat’s luresystem, designed to encourage the animals to do what cheetahs (and Mtani, too!) do best: run and chase.

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Clouded Leopard Cub is Ticklish

by Holy Cuteness on April 12, 2012

One of the one-month-old endangered leopard cubs of the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium gets tickled by a caretaker and clearly enjoys it….

You can still vote to give this adorable male cub and his sister a name.

Via PDZA.

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To Play is to Learn

by Holy Cuteness on April 10, 2012

Big Cat expert Simon King attempts to help raise two orphan cheetah cubs as wild cats. Here’s he trying to learn them how to hunt and to become real predators.

Posted to our Twitter by Jagoear.

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Adorable Lion Cubs Being Adorable

by Holy Cuteness on February 21, 2012

Two nine-day-old lion cubs are trying to escape from an evil bucket — squee!

Via SayOMG.

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Hey, a New Play Buddy!

by Holy Cuteness on January 12, 2012

Two lion cubs welcome their new doggy pal with great enthusiasm, what a warm welcome!

Via Buzzfeed.

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Lion Gets a Beauty Treatment

by Holy Cuteness on December 30, 2011

Jamu the lion of Johannesburg’s Lion Park, gets his hair and nails done by animal wrangler Alex Larenty.

Via Superpunch.

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