A safari vehicle pulls up beside a sleeping white lion, one of fewer than a handful roaming free in the wild, and what happens next captures just how unbothered these extraordinary cats can be about ...

Zawadi, the African lion, represents one of the world’s most powerful predators and highlights the importance of protecting this iconic species.

Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate is to live among them. They are lords of the wild savanna but inimical to ...

Very few animals in the wild have the power to evoke such awe and inspiration as the African lion. Yet despite our reverence for these iconic big cats, lions have been wiped out of large swathes of ...

Africa’s lions are under pressure from shrinking habitat, growing settlements and conflict with people living close to wildlife areas. The warning comes as conservationists mark World Lion Day, with ...

African lion Shera rests on a bed of hay in her indoor enclosure Jan. 26 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Great Cats Exhibit. Image: Leigh Pitsko, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

The lions are back at the Saint Louis Zoo! After more than a year without lions, one African lion will debut to the public Tuesday, with another set to arrive soon.

The endless plains of East Africa is lion country. An abundance of food and water make this a paradise for lions. The most social of all cats, lions form prides that are unlike any other animals.