They say that cats have nine lives, but they don’t say that about the Serengeti lion. Life is hard and precarious ... for days by a single male consort. Dark manes correlate with robustness ...
The fig trees that surround the gorge afford a good view of the terrain, as well as providing a place to stash kills away from scavenging hyenas and offering protection from marauding lions.
At Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park, a male lion cub named Earth once ruled like the king of the beasts, adored by visitors. But in reality, a lion is just a small-timer in the hierarchy of ...