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The tweet says it nicely: “Making fun of animals in captivity is not entertainment”. The lioness is impressive in holding her own against three burly men in a tug-of-war but this is not the...
The Born Free Foundation tells us that there are as many as 8000-12,000 captive lions on lion farms in South Africa. They are bred to be shot for fun or their body parts exported...
A couple of scientific reports indicate to me that when the domestic cat is left to their own devices such as in rural locations e.g. as barn cats, their behaviour is very similar to...
This is a neat little Twitter video of an Asiatic lion wandering onto farmland, not that far from the farmer who captured the video, and towards another Asiatic lion who is resting on the...
Young fan said: “We met one of the Sheikh’s sons & he took us back to the palace!” ?. He was mooching around the area where the tournament is taking place and the Sheikh’s...
People ask, “Do female lions kill male lions?” The answer is, rarely yes. It should be noted, however, that my excellent reference books on this matter do not refer to lionesses killing male lions...
The lion kill rate varies so much that there is no standard or average. My source tells me that the reported kill rate ‘of individual lions varies from a low of ten to twelve...
This is a good picture from a video of 15 out of 22 lions from a ‘mega pride’ drinking from a pond. A pride of twenty-two lions is a good size. The person who...
How do lions keep cool? I can think of the following five reasons but please add yours if possible: Perhaps the most obvious and effective method is that lions appear to be primarily nocturnal....
G.B. Schaller in his book The Serengeti Lion (1972) examined several hundred lion kills and only on 13 occasions did he record lions covering the remains of their prey animals. The problem for lions...
The question is highly hypothetical and trying to write an answer is tiresome. It is irritating but judging by the hundreds of thousands of words written on this topic, people are interested in it....
Yes, lions eat grass. You do not have to go far on the Internet to see videos of lions eating grass so that conclusively answers the question. It is worth noting, however, that there...
Lions normally drink water every day if it is available. When researchers have observed prides of lions in the Serengeti and the nearby Ngorongoro Crater they drank after every meal. Although lions can manage...
Normally, lions do not eat other lions but it is reported anecdotally that there have been exceedingly rare exceptions of male lions eating the young offspring of females in a pride that they wish...
Warthogs have dens. They can make them under rocks or they can use burrows. And they tend to sleep and breed in abandon aardvark dens. These consist of a tunnel leading to a large...
