Stars of Big Cat Diary

Stars of Big Cat Diary
Author: Angela Scott
Publisher: Evans Mitchell Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781901268423

Big Cat Diary is a television phenomenon. From its inception in 1996 it grew steadily in popularity, until it attracted audiences of up to seven million. In autumn 2008, in the BBC Natural History Unit’s most ambitious outside broadcast ever, it went live for the first time and recorded two million visitors to its website in the course of transmission.

The Leopard's Tale

The Leopard's Tale
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1841624799

Almost everyone on safari hopes for a glimpse of the charismatic and elusive leopard. Chui was the first of a new generation of leopards Jonathan Scott watched and photographed in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve in the 1970s and 1980s. He spent every available moment watching and photographing Chui and her cubs, Light and Dark, aware that he was only privileged to do so for as long as they chose to remain visible. His classic account tells the story of the mother leopard as a solitary hunter providing for herself and her offspring. He records encounters with baboon, hyaena and man, hazards facing the cubs as they learn to fend for themselves and periods of play and relaxation. Some years after Chui disappeared, a young female appeared, Half-Tail. Jonathan and Angela have followed her and her daughter Zawadi, stars of the BBC's Big Cat Diary, for the past twenty years, bringing the story up to date. Nobody has studied leopards more closely or known them more intimatelyJonathan says: 'The update is based on our work with Half-Tail and Zawadi from both the pictures and text perspective - Angie worked with us on Big Cat Diary as the stills photographer from 1996 and before that we both worked with Half-Tail from the time she first appeared around Leopard Gorge and Fig Tree Ridge - our kids grew up on safari with Half-Tail and Zawadi as stars of their own Mara adventures.'

Lion

Lion
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Lion
ISBN: 9780007146666

A companion volume to the successful Big Cat Diary television series, which goes beyond the day-to-day footage and explores the bigger picture: history, biology, behaviour, conservation and how lions survive outside the Masai Mara. As well as a detailed examination of biology and behaviour, the book provides an historical perspective of the big cat families featured in the series. The book also looks outside the Masai Mara Game Reserve, to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the Ngorongoro Crater, and Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Finally there is the question of how to conserve our big cat populations. There could be as few as 15,000 lions left in Africa. How can we ensure they can maintain breeding populations, space to hunt and sufficient prey to survive?

The Big Cat Man

The Big Cat Man
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1784770337

The Big Cat Man - wildlife autobiography of Jonathan Scott, holiday reads and travel literature, including the BBC's Big Cat Diary, Paramount's Wild Things, and Elephant Diaries. Also included are photographs and illustrations by Jonathan and Angela Scott, plus coverage of the Maasai Mara and Serengeti, Antarctica, and travels to India and Bhutan.

The Marsh Lions

The Marsh Lions
Author: Brian Jackman
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1841624284

"For five years Brian Jackman and Jonathan Scott followed the Marsh pride ... recording the daily drama of life and death in Kenya's finest big-game country. In time they came to regard many of the lions as old and familiar companions: the irascible Notch and her half-sister Shadow, the misfit Mkubwa and the majestic Scar. These lions are real individuals whose lives - intimately observed and ... illustrated - offer a unique insight into the ... world of the African plain. ..."--Back cover.

Leopard

Leopard
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2003
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0007146671

Populations, have sufficient space to hunt and enough natural prey to survive. The second in the series of three books accompanying the major BBC television series, Big Cat Diary: Leopard features the leopards of the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Going beyond the day-to-day footage, it explores the bigger picture of how leopards survive outside the 1,510 sq. km (600 sq. mile) Reserve.

Cat Diaries

Cat Diaries
Author: Betsy Byars
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2010-04-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429963751

An irresistible collection of short stories for cat lovers. At the annual gathering of the MEOW society, cats of all kinds convene to share their stories and those of their ancestors. Chico, the smallest cat in the world, recounts stopping a crime. The Pirate Cat tells of the fateful day when he discovered a treasure while hunting for mice. And Georgio shares his delectable—and sometimes surprising—recipes. Cat Diaries is a winning companion to Dog Diaries, also by Betsy Byars and her daughters Betsy Duffy and Laurie Myers. With gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by Erik Brooks, animal lovers and reluctant readers will be wooed by the charm, strength, and wit of these feline friends.

'Queen' of the Mara

'Queen' of the Mara
Author: David Drummond
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781905237258

Presents a story of a wild free-ranging cheetah that became the star of BBC TV's "Big Cat Diary". The setting of this story is the world famous Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya's Maasai Mara, bordering the vast Serengeti Ecosystem.

My Big Cats Journal

My Big Cats Journal
Author: Steve Bloom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Cheetah
ISBN: 9780500650028

Facts and photographs about big cats in the wild from around the world.

The Masai

The Masai
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0007230974

The Masai have a reputation for courage, independence and a way of life that fits with the grasslands of the East African plains. Find out all about the people, their history and how they live, in this stunning non-fiction book by top BBC wildlife filmmakers and photographers Jonathan and Angela Scott. * Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. * Text type - A non-chronological report. * There is a useful glossary and index on pages 44 and 45 and a diary of the day in the life f a Masai child on pages 46 and 47. * Curriculum links - Geography: knowledge and understanding of places; Citizenship: developing good relationships and respecting the differences between people.