61.   The big cats are now in their fourth day without meat.

62.   The only crimp in long-haul travel is the fact that the big cat needs service-station nourishment more often than its occupants need pit stops.

63.   The sound has a hint of purr, and a large dose of the throaty challenge of a big cat.

64.   The star of the show was a big yellow cat that looked like a normal cat, instead of the fur-covered robot it surely must have been.

65.   Then came the boys from Germany, bearing big white cats and magic tricks.

66.   The volunteer told me to forget any notion that the big cat actually liked me.

67.   These range from millions for the big cats to thousands for small fry.

68.   They also said that cat cloning may become important for the preservation of endangered species, although that would require using captive big cats as surrogates.

69.   They have created a program that helps save cheetahs in Namibia by providing livestock-guarding dogs to farmers who consider the big cats predatory pests.

70.   They produced a book on the big cat and used income from the book to set up a local conservation fund for the jaguars.