This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... authority on the behavior and ecology of the African lion. With Packer’s 35 years of work added to what Schaller ...

In other words, the African lion inhabits an archipelago of insular ... in that place, it was enough. National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative is dedicated to halting the decline of lions ...

The species, dubbed "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika" meaning "big African lion" in Swahili ... carnivores more than 20 million years ago, National Geographic reports. But they are not related to hyenas.