If you go on safari to Africa—be it to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, or Tanzania—you might not realize that the king of beasts is disappearing. You will see lion prides from your ...

(The Lion King’s Scar-Mufasa-Simba drama is not far from fiction.) A Fraught Coexistence But the greatest threat to lions—to all wildlife—is posed by humans. Lions, despite their apex ...

The effect was a little alarming, like being in a modern Colosseum with the lions looking down from the stands and the humans huddled ... of 1994’s “The Lion King” — let alone its 2019 ...