[Leica] IMG: Nathan's PAW 32: a short week--dogs, cats and beer

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Luis,
The adult tigers are just too heavy to climb trees - cubs often do when
playing! However, I have seen tigresses chasing leopards go 5-7 metres up a
tree trunk through sheer momentum, but when they stall, they just fall off!
A male tiger is so massive that even this is impossible.

Cats, however, have taught leopards to climb trees extremely efficiently -
their neck muscles are so strong that they can carry prey of 100-125kg,
roughly equal or slightly more than their own weight, vertically up a tree
for safekeeping! They are acrobatically agile on trees, which is their safe
refuge from bigger carnivores:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/wildtravel/EAfrica/Tanzania+2012/

Lionesses frequently climb trees in East Africa - they are lighter than
tigresses so manage to do it:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/wildtravel/EAfrica/2014/Ndutu_20140311_3133.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/wildtravel/EAfrica/Masai+Mara/20080910-1544.jpg.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Hi Jayanand,
>
> Nice image of this big cat! ….I've heard that in India they say, "The only
> thing the cat hasn't taught the tiger is how to climb a tree." Is that true?
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
> > El 13 ag 2025, a les 3:30, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> >
> > Those small cats looked at you no differently than their bigger cousins
> > look at me! :-)
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tigerland/Ranthambhore_001/2019/Ranthambhore/Ranthambhore-20190319-982.jpg.html
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM Nathan Wajsman via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Last week was busy at work, and we were also preparing for a 2-week trip
> >> to California starting Sunday morning (I am writing this in my son’s
> >> apartment in El Cerrito, near Berkeley). So the shortest blog of the
> year
> >> so far I think, just 11 images, mainly taken while cycling and having a
> >> beer after work. Dogs, cats (lots), a couple of pretty young women, and
> a
> >> bit of on abstract at the end. It’s all here:
> >>
> >> https://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=4753
> >>
> >> And as always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
> >>
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> Nathan Wajsman
> >> photo at frozenlight.eu
> >>
> >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
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> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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> >>
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