The cat keepers have been enjoying enriching the cats at the daily big cat feeds. The idea of these feeds is to give the cats a stimulating and challenging experience that exercises their minds and bodies. It may be due to a number of different factors, but we have seen Casper, our young testosterone filled Lion, act a lot more calm towards the keepers as of late. We like to think this is because he is getting a good chance to exert his energy and strength with the 'workouts' we have been giving him. These include having to 'catch' his food as it dangle on a fishing rod or having a tug of war with keepers or a heavy tyre. Today he was so chilled out that he even let us grab this close up portrait shot of him, the photographer being only 10 foot or so away from him.
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I have to give a shout out to Diamond this morning for showing his appreciation to the Ranthambore pond being cleared yesterday by coming out and having a drink from it when we first let him out this morning. Diamond's markings and coat pattern are always striking as he has a form of leucism, which basically means he can't produce the black pigment usually seen in tigers in their stripes and facial markings. This is comparable to the white tigers who can't produce the orange pigment. I particularly like this photo as it gives evidence to the large meal we gave him the night before...
it is good to see the big cats enjoy the enrichment you give them and you do a good job looking after all your animals thats why i want to become a zoo keeper and work with big cats
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