Lions are not currently endangered in Africa. However, three-quarters of their populations are in decline. The main threats to African lions are human-wildlife conflict and natural prey decline, as ...
Their sensitive hearing means they are able to stalk prey when it’s obscured by dense vegetation and detect their next meal when it’s as far as a mile away. The African lion population has ...
For the greatest of African predators as well as for their prey, life spans tend to be short, more often terminating abruptly than in graceful decline. An adult male lion, if he’s lucky and ...
In 1898, two lions that came to be known as the Tsavo man-eaters relentlessly hunted workers of the Kenya-Uganda railway in the dead of night before eventually being taken down.
Dar es Salaam. From the comfort of the safari trucks, tourists visiting the wild East African nation of Tanzania have witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody wars known in the animal kingdoms.
Three African lions are kept for exhibition at ... Threatened by a dwindling habitat that reduces their chances of finding prey, lions are listed as endangered on the International Union for ...