This year Jonathan Scott followed a very special cheetah mum, Shakira ... facing down a daunting male lion and then two lionesses to protect her cubs. But sadly, she lost two of the cubs one ...

A female cheetah will hide her cubs in long grass ... and Honey challenge an adult male lion – at grave risk – to give her cubs a few extra seconds to escape. Unlucky Amber also lost a litter ...

The jaguar, the leopard, the snow leopard, and the cheetah follow in that order ... up to six young male lions, and lion cubs of all ages. Each pride has a territory it governs, with the adult ...