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 ...

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.