Scientists know a great deal about how lions hunt, breed and survive, but the microscopic communities living inside them have ...

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Giving zoo lions whole carcasses on a feast-and-fast schedule appears to bring out more natural behavior. The lions spent nearly three times longer feeding, engaged in more tearing and manipulating of ...

A safari vehicle pulls up beside a sleeping white lion, one of fewer than a handful roaming free in the wild, and what happens next captures just how unbothered these extraordinary cats can be about ...

“Our GPS collar data shows that African lions and spotted hyenas leave a clear, measurable signature in the way they move around one another,” said Barker. “Spotted hyenas consistently move away from ...

Franklin Park Zoo’s beloved Dinari has died, years after the regal African lion underwent a procedure to help save his brother’s life in his last months alive, according to park officials mourning the ...

African wild dog pack in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. Photo by flowcomm via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. The lion owns the human imagination in a way few predators ever have. It is the animal ...

A new Australian study suggests that zoo lions behave more like their wild counterparts when they are given whole animal carcasses as part of a feast ...

A new Australian study suggests that zoo lions behave more like their wild counterparts when they are given whole animal ...