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So think of the biggest and baddest predators in the animal kingdom, the most powerful carnivores in the food chain, and those are the guys you’ll be getting up close and personal with at the Lujan petting zoo in Argentina. Just outside Buenos Aires, a controversial zoo allows visitors past the iron bars that normally [...]
“The big picture is that we are intimately bound to animals and it is satisfying to take them in and tame them. Subconsciously, we are a mishmash. We don’t know who we are, and so to simplify things, we predicate our individuality on animals.” Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan, a cultural geographer at the University of [...]
Her ‘brother’ was an elephant and she splashed around with crocodiles … No, this is not the kid from the Jungle Book movie. This is Tippi Degré, the girl who grew up in the African wild and managed to not get eaten. The animals you see in these photos with Tippi were not in any way [...]
These guys are kind of like kids that never outgrew their remote control car phase– and all the more power to them! Their BeetleCam invention is unstoppable, look at that thing go! It’s a remote control buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top that can take close-up, wide-angle photographs of dangerous African animals. But [...]
You’ve been looking at the home of actress Tippi Hedren in California, photographed by LIFE magazine during the early 1970s. Best-known for her role in Hitchcock’s The Birds, Tippi is also the mother of actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), who is the little girl you just saw lying in bed with a lion, and also above with her head [...]
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