This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. They say that cats have nine lives, but they don’t say that about the Serengeti lion. Life is hard and precarious on ...

Charlie was filming lions around the Gol Kopjes area of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania when he came across these cheetahs. They, too, were watching lions. ‘Once the danger had gone,’ Charlie ...

And after a yearlong study of primates in Japan, he returned to head a lion research project in Serengeti National Park in 1978. Packer is now the director of the University of Minnesota’s Lion ...

A lion known as the king of the Serengeti has been killed by rivals. Tour operators and visitors to the national park have paid tribute to the "legendary" Bob Junior - also known as Snyggve - online.

“The study in Gir has been on for almost two decades, long enough to document the lifespan of individual lions. Similar studies have been carried out for extended periods in the Serengeti ...