Powerful and majestic, the king of the beasts has no natural predators. But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the last three generations, due to loss of living space and ...

A breed of African lion hound originating from South Africa and Zimbabwe in the 1600s, the Rhodesian Ridgeback is a cross between the European breeds of Dutch colonizers and the ridge-backed ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. They say that cats have nine lives, but they don’t say that about the Serengeti lion. Life is hard and precarious on ...

The African lion population has plummeted by over 40% over the last three generations. 9. There may be as few as 20,000 lions left in the wild The African lion population has undergone ...

BRISBANE premiership forward Joe Daniher has retired from the AFL with one year left to run on his contract. The 30-year-old told teammates of his decision amid their flag celebrations, following last ...

The zoo said scientific studies in 2017 showed that of the two distinct subspecies of African lion - Northern and Southern - Northern lions faced greater threats in the wild and were therefore "in ...