Back in 1971, actress Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall, and their actress daughter, Melanie Griffith, brought a full-grown male lion into their residential home in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Tippi
and Noel had recently come back from a trip to Africa, where they’d
seen an abandoned house inhabited by lions. The experience inspired them
to create a film about the endangered big cats in order to raise
awareness and promote conservation, and as animal trainer Ron Oxley had
told them that in order “to get to know anything about lions, you’ve
just got to live with them for a while,” they were determined to do just
that.
Tippi and Noel separated a year after “Roar,” and
Tippi went on to found the Shambala Preserve animal sanctuary, a place
for mistreated and neglected exotic animals. The actress lives at the
sanctuary to this day.
The film that came out of their experience,
“Roar,” was released in 1981 and featured 150 big cats, including
leopards, cheetahs, and cougars. It ended up being a box office flop,
and during production, more than 70 people sustained injuries, including Melanie.
LIFE photographer
Michael Rougier took these fascinating photos which documented the
family’s day-to-day experiences of having a lion named Neil in their
home in 1971.
[via Petflow]
Tippi Hendren looks back.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
unborn animals
Peter Chinn, producer of National Geographic’s “In The Womb: Extreme Animals”
series, makes incredible use of 3D ultrasound scans, computer graphics,
and nano cameras to create breathtaking images of unborn animals.
From baby elephants to penguins waiting to hatch, these images are not only adorable, but extremely fascinating sights to behold, tracking the growth and development of embryonic animals from conception to birth.
[via petflow]
From baby elephants to penguins waiting to hatch, these images are not only adorable, but extremely fascinating sights to behold, tracking the growth and development of embryonic animals from conception to birth.
[via petflow]
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