Our newest research assistant is experiencing her first winter in the preserve, and finding out why it is the toughest season of the year. This is her first day in the field after a brutal winter storm, and while she puts on a brave face for her colleagu
This beauty is starting to make my job too easy. I just stepped out onto the balcony of the ranger station and found her presenting. I really shouldn't encourage such tameness, but she's proven to be quite a nuisance in the past when not sexually satis
This beauty here escaped the preserve and was proving a bit of a nuisance at a local beach, so she had to be netted and returned to us. She may be found to be unfit for life in the wild, in which case she'll be adopted by a well-vetted home as a domesti
When I mate with a pride, I try to stick around for two or three days if they'll let me, until either they chase me off or another female attracts my attention. This provides not only additional opportunities for breeding, but general scientific observa
Nesting in trees give grassland females a safe place to rest and recover after a morning hunt, as well as an excellent vantage point to watch for competition and prey. The most comfortable trees are hotly contested, but this brunette has defended her cla
