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An elephant named Fred Astaire stretches on his hind legs to reach foliage in a tree while a lion watches in Mana Pools, Zimbabwe. Only two elephants in the region are known to stand on their hind legs: photo by Marit Van Meekeren / Barcroft Media via The Guardian, 21 November 2014
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Female lions at rest with their cubs, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: photo by Michael Nichols via The Guardian, 22 October 2014
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An unsuspecting warthog took a wrong turn in the Addo elephant park in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa when he fatally crossed the path of a hungry lion: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
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The lion reaches out with its paw to stop the warthog running away: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
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The warthog makes a valiant but futile attempt to escape the clutches of the lion: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
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The lion fatally wounds the warthog: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
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The male lion sees off another lion interested in free food: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
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… and settles down to feed on his kill: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
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J-Lo and lion: the star’s 45th-birthday cake: photo via The Guardian, 30 July 2014
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J-Lo's birthday cake: photo via The Guardian, 30 July 2014
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Trophy hunters from the U.S. with a male lion in Tanzania: photo by miombosafaris via The Guardian, 11 August 2009
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Lion (Panthera leo), Ngorongoro Crater: photo by Rob Qld, 2007
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A lion cub walks in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park: photo by Noor Khamis/Reuters, 2012
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Lion (Panthera leo), Olomouc Zoo: photo by SonNy cZ, 2007
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C-Boy, a black-maned male lion, and his coalition partner, Hildur, once controlled a superior territory in Tanzania’s Serengeti national park, but they were deposed by a squad of four males known to researchers as the Killers. The photographer came across C-boy and Hildur hunkered down in the rain: ‘I had never before seen these two senior coalition males together’: photo by Michael Nichols/National Geographic, via The Guardian, 28 August 2013
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Leopard (Panthera pardus): photo by Rupert Taylor-Price, 16 September 2008
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Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus): photo by Michael Potts, 2 July 2011
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Leopard relaxing on a tree: photographer unknown, n.d.; image by Bogdan, 26 November 2008 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Just 45 Amur leopards remain in the wild, but there are 220 of the critically endangered cat in a global conservation breeding programmes in zoos around the world with a reintroduction scheme currently in the planning stages: photo by Chris Sargent/Alamy via The Guardian, 15 August 2013
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A wild leopard prepares to pounce on a forest guard after it strayed into Prakash Nagar village near Salugara in India, on 19 July; the animal ended up being shot: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
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Six people were mauled by the leopard before it was caught by forestry department officials: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
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The animal leaps on an armed forest guard in Prakash Nagar village, India: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
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Forest guards try to ensnare the leopard: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
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The animal tries to escape from forestry officials: photo by AP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
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A forest guard prepares to shoot the leopard after he and his colleagues were attacked. Officials made several attempts to tranquilize the animal –- many were injured in the process. The animal, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary centre: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
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A male wild leopard climbed a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa, West Bengal, India: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP, 2012
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Leopard in a tree: photo by David Berkowitz, 16 September 2008
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Female Leopard (Panthera pardus): photo by Steve Jurvetson, 1 July 2011
An elephant named Fred Astaire stretches on his hind legs to reach foliage in a tree while a lion watches in Mana Pools, Zimbabwe. Only two elephants in the region are known to stand on their hind legs: photo by Marit Van Meekeren / Barcroft Media via The Guardian, 21 November 2014
They lie around.
They have no stamina, but they are beautiful and fully self-possessed.
With coats the color of the grass, they blend in perfectly
until they want to pose luxuriously on a rock.
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The lions divide into female prides, a mother and siblings and cousins, and male
alliances, also of siblings and cousins. A pride will be associated with an
alliance, and prides will recognize some degree of kinship with other prides.
Around the area, which has been monitored and studied for half a century, the
territories of prides and alliances have ebbed and flowed. Because there is
knowledge of the kinship relations among the prides and alliances, it would be
possible to write a history of their conflicts and struggles, victories and defeats,
like the history of Europe.
*
They have no stamina.
They will chase prey if they are highly confident of victory.
Otherwise they will steal from lesser cats.
How can such nobility co-exist with such low, conniving behavior?
*
Elsewhere, but nearby
the leopard sits in its tree, or on a rock, observing the moon, sunset at its back.
They have no stamina, but they are beautiful and fully self-possessed.
With coats the color of the grass, they blend in perfectly
until they want to pose luxuriously on a rock.
*
The lions divide into female prides, a mother and siblings and cousins, and male
alliances, also of siblings and cousins. A pride will be associated with an
alliance, and prides will recognize some degree of kinship with other prides.
Around the area, which has been monitored and studied for half a century, the
territories of prides and alliances have ebbed and flowed. Because there is
knowledge of the kinship relations among the prides and alliances, it would be
possible to write a history of their conflicts and struggles, victories and defeats,
like the history of Europe.
*
They have no stamina.
They will chase prey if they are highly confident of victory.
Otherwise they will steal from lesser cats.
How can such nobility co-exist with such low, conniving behavior?
*
Elsewhere, but nearby
the leopard sits in its tree, or on a rock, observing the moon, sunset at its back.
Female lions at rest with their cubs, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: photo by Michael Nichols via The Guardian, 22 October 2014
An unsuspecting warthog took a wrong turn in the Addo elephant park in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa when he fatally crossed the path of a hungry lion: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
The lion reaches out with its paw to stop the warthog running away: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
The warthog makes a valiant but futile attempt to escape the clutches of the lion: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
The lion fatally wounds the warthog: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
The male lion sees off another lion interested in free food: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
… and settles down to feed on his kill: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014
II.xi. ...What is internal is hidden from us."---The future is hidden from us. But does the astronomer think like this when he calculates an eclipse of the sun?
If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me.
We also say of some people that they are transparent to us. It is, however, important as regards this observation that one human being can be a complete enigma to another. We learn this when we come into a strange country with entirely strange traditions; and, what is more, even given a mastery of the country's language, we do not understand the people. (And not because of not knowing what they are saying to themselves.) We cannot find our feet with them.
"I cannot know what goes on in him" is above all a picture. It is the convincing expression of a conviction. They are not readily accessible.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: from Philosophical Investigations, c. 1945-1949
J-Lo and lion: the star’s 45th-birthday cake: photo via The Guardian, 30 July 2014
I made J-Lo’s lion birthday cake -– and I’m proud of it: Samantha Brooks, The Guardian Wednesday 30 July 2014
When Samantha Brooks got the call to make Jennifer Lopez’s 45th birthday cake, she knew it would need steel pipes and floor flanges as well as the requested coconut mousse filling
Last week I got a text from Ron Gelish, an old friend of mine, and J-Lo’s personal chef. He wanted to know if I would be interested in making a cake. Sure, I said, what would you like? After a long pause, the reply came: “We should probably talk over the phone -– It’s for J-Lo”. Ron knows what I'm capable of doing and I was really pleased he felt I was the right person to create Jennifer Lopez’s 45th-birthday cake.
Less than a minute later we were talking details. Next, Sindy Mashiah, J-Lo’s party planner, contacted me -– I was really excited about her vision because I have always wanted to create a cake in lion form. We went over various ideas -– I sketched about six different positions of J-Lo with the lion. After a few hours we agreed that she should be lying on the lion, wearing a sleeveless onesie.
I moved straight on to making the cake since I had only two days to do it. A cake of this size needs different pieces of hardware for stability, including steel pipes, floor flanges, PVC pipes, as well as more traditional baking ingredients such as modelling chocolate, Rice Krispies, fondant and gum paste. And I had to bake the most important element –- the requested lemon cake with coconut mousse filling.
J-Lo's birthday cake: photo via The Guardian, 30 July 2014
J-Lo, her staff, and the guests at the party were all pleased with it. So was I -– and I’m proud we were able to pull it off in just two days!
The photographs that have since been all over the internet and papers don’t represent it 100% accurately -– it had been sitting out unrefrigerated for a few hours, and the candles and sparklers beside it caused it to melt a little. To hear the feedback –- negative or positive –- about the positioning of her body is irrelevant [internet scamps and gossip columnists have had much fun suggesting J-Lo is "humping" rather than lounging on the lion]. My client was happy with what I made and that’s all that matters to my staff and me. Maybe the design isn’t for everyone -– we’re all entitled to our opinion -– but at the end of the day, our cake is the most talked about to date, and I’m very proud of that.
Custom Birthday Cake for Jennifer Lopez: image via SamiCakes, 2014
Trophy hunters from the U.S. with a male lion in Tanzania: photo by miombosafaris via The Guardian, 11 August 2009
Asiatic Lions (Panthera leo persica), male, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Mumbai: photo by supersujit, 2008
II.xi. ...What is internal is hidden from us."---The future is hidden from us. But does the astronomer think like this when he calculates an eclipse of the sun?
Lion (Panthera leo), Ngorongoro Crater: photo by Rob Qld, 2007
If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me.
Lion (Panthera leo),Tanzania: photo by John Storr, 1997
We also say of some people that they are transparent to us. It is, however, important as regards this observation that one human being can be a complete enigma to another. We learn this when we come into a strange country with entirely strange traditions; and, what is more, even given a mastery of the country's language, we do not understand the people. (And not because of not knowing what they are saying to themselves.) We cannot find our feet with them.
Lioness hunting warthogs in the western corridor of the Serengeti: photo by Schuyler Shepherd, 2009
"I cannot know what goes on in him" is above all a picture. It is the convincing expression of a conviction. They are not readily accessible.
A lion cub walks in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park: photo by Noor Khamis/Reuters, 2012
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Lion (Panthera leo), Olomouc Zoo: photo by SonNy cZ, 2007
C-Boy, a black-maned male lion, and his coalition partner, Hildur, once controlled a superior territory in Tanzania’s Serengeti national park, but they were deposed by a squad of four males known to researchers as the Killers. The photographer came across C-boy and Hildur hunkered down in the rain: ‘I had never before seen these two senior coalition males together’: photo by Michael Nichols/National Geographic, via The Guardian, 28 August 2013
Leopard (Panthera pardus): photo by Rupert Taylor-Price, 16 September 2008
Leopard (Panthera pardus pardus): photo by Michael Potts, 2 July 2011
Leopard relaxing on a tree: photographer unknown, n.d.; image by Bogdan, 26 November 2008 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Just 45 Amur leopards remain in the wild, but there are 220 of the critically endangered cat in a global conservation breeding programmes in zoos around the world with a reintroduction scheme currently in the planning stages: photo by Chris Sargent/Alamy via The Guardian, 15 August 2013
A wild leopard prepares to pounce on a forest guard after it strayed into Prakash Nagar village near Salugara in India, on 19 July; the animal ended up being shot: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
Six people were mauled by the leopard before it was caught by forestry department officials: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
The animal leaps on an armed forest guard in Prakash Nagar village, India: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
Forest guards try to ensnare the leopard: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
The animal tries to escape from forestry officials: photo by AP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
The leopard attempts to flee the village after attacking forest guards and injuring residents: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
A forest guard prepares to shoot the leopard after he and his colleagues were attacked. Officials made several attempts to tranquilize the animal –- many were injured in the process. The animal, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary centre: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP via The Guardian, 20 July 2011
A male wild leopard climbed a net after it fell into a water reservoir tank at a tea estate in Haskhowa, West Bengal, India: photo by Diptendu Dutta / AFP, 2012
Leopard in a tree: photo by David Berkowitz, 16 September 2008
Female Leopard (Panthera pardus): photo by Steve Jurvetson, 1 July 2011