People ask ‘do lions sleep in trees?’ and it doesn’t take long to realise that the answer is a resounding, yes. Also it seems to me that lions have favorite trees in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania because I see … Continue reading →
A rich American sport hunter travelled to Africa to shoot the most glamorous lion he could find. He used people in Africa to organise things and make it happen. He did not mind if the rules were bent and he … Continue reading →
Yes, lions have belly buttons as the lion is a placental mammal, giving birth to live offspring with an umbilical cord attached to a placenta.
Continue reading →It’s unsurprising but Trump has done something terribly wrong. He has undone the work of former president Obama in restricting the importation of hunting trophies from Africa. Quietly the US Fish and Wildlife Service have lifted a ban on the … Continue reading →
The answer has got to be a NO. Lions are not ‘monogamous’ to use a human term. Lions live in prides. Females in a pride tend to come into estrus at the same time. A lion in estrus is a … Continue reading →
The Santiago Zoo webpage tells us that lions walk for two hours daily travelling an average of around 9.5 kilometers. The Sunquists in Wild Cats of the World tell us that: “Along Namibia’s Skeleton Coast lions hunt fur seals, walking … Continue reading →
The lion’s mane comes in a variety of sizes and density of color. It increase in length and thickness as a lion becomes older. It becomes darker. The mane serves two distinct purposes. Appearance The first reason for the mane … Continue reading →
Astonishingly, the man, Mr Loveridge, who fitted the GPS collar to Xanda the lion recently killed by trophy hunters in Zimbabwe, says that the person who organised the hunt resulting in the killing of this lion is Richard Cooke from … Continue reading →
On July 7, a trophy hunter, as yet unnamed, shot Cecil’s son, Xanda, not far from where his father was also hunted and killed. The killing was sanctioned by the Zimbabwean government. I would like to know who killed him. … Continue reading →
People want to know what lions do in their spare time. Of all the species of cat including domestic cats, lions are the least active. In their spare time they rest. Two prides of lions, one in the Serengeti and … Continue reading →
