Lions are not currently endangered in Africa. However, three-quarters of their populations are in decline. The main threats to African lions are human-wildlife conflict and natural prey decline, as ...

Asiatic lions in Gujarat's Gir National Park exhibit higher activity levels compared to their African relatives. They remain ...

Their sensitive hearing means they are able to stalk prey when it’s obscured by dense vegetation and detect their next meal when it’s as far as a mile away. The African lion population has ...

The spread of big-headed ants in east Africa has disrupted the life of the African lion, forcing it to make fewer zebra kills and switch its prey, scientists have found. The presence of the ...

The causes are multiple—including habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching of lion prey for bush meat ... indicate that African lions now live in nearly 70 distinct areas (view map), the ...

For the greatest of African predators as well as for their prey, life spans tend to be short, more often terminating abruptly than in graceful decline. An adult male lion, if he’s lucky and ...

African lions remain in only 25 countries and nearly ... With human-induced threats like habitat loss, prey depletion, and human-wildlife conflict, lions are increasingly being pushed to the ...

Researchers have been analysing how zebra and antelope escape from lions and cheetahs on the African savannah. They say hunting at lower speed favours prey, as it offers them the best chance of ...

Three African lions are kept for exhibition at ... Threatened by a dwindling habitat that reduces their chances of finding prey, lions are listed as endangered on the International Union for ...