Man and nature
will be saved together in a happy harmony, where our species will disappear with the last remainders from a balance
which was not created to thwart the development of humanity, but to be used as a framework. Jean Dorst.
Much too often, with the cinema or in the novels of adventure, one depicts the large cat-like ones as cruel carnivores which lead a war without mercy to the herbivores, eternal victims, and even devour each other as soon as they can. |
Actually, in
lonelinesses of Eastern Africa where there are steppes and savannahs which shelter nowadays the greatest concentrations
of wild beasts in the world, Lions do not howl and do not show their claws;
they peacefully sleep in the shade of the acacias in family groups, drawing much more the attention by their somnolence
and their passivity than by their ferocity.
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We cannot unfortunately say the same about man, that his would be intelligence proclaims with the row of super predator, and who never satisfied, urged by his desire of power and domination, does not hesitate in spite of his own survival to ridicule this law and to devote himself to carnage over nature, leaving behind him the signature of his irresponsible and suicidal behaviour. Today, many species of large and small Felidae are threatened to extinction. However man needs these animals which have so much to teach him... |
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Here, I hope that this modest page will have shown you another facet of these formidable creatures, certainly less spectacular but which will allow you nevertheless to appreciate them fully. |