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Almost done with the Amazon Vella project, but we need to go lightly on the weekend’s posts for at least one more day.

I hope you will enjoy these videos of wild cats dealing with cameras as much as I did.

The first one is a really trippy video made by a lioness who grabbed a selfie stick with running camera:

Don’t you hate how the camera makes your nose look big?

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Big cat, little cat, “Who let you in here?” Manul wants to know:

Actual comment: “I love how this cat always looks a little bit mentally unstable.”

A little bit?

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Snow leopards are more sensible and want to know, “Can you eat it?”:

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And here is a little big cat, checking things out:

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A Eurasian lynx gives us a closeup of its summer-length beard, ear tufts, and beautiful facial markings.

Fact for the day: Most cat eyes have vertical pupils; big cats, the puma lineage, and Manul (see above) have round pupils; but for some reason, the lynx’s pupils are midway between vertical and round.

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Finally, there is that walking mountain of orange-and-black feline gravitas in Siberia, who does not deign to even glance at the small human contraption as it passes by;

Its numbers are growing.

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Some lagniappe:

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