African Lions

Staff rescued and handed over to the police a man who was walking on the boulders of the African Lion moat area at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Online calls grew Sunday to help save five "malnourished and sick" African lions held at a park in Sudan's capital, with some demanding the creatures be shifted to a better habitat.

South African police on Saturday said they had launched an investigation after eight mutilated lion carcasses were discovered at a private game farm.

A young lion captured after being on the run for almost a month spent the night in a South African police cell before being moved back to its national park home.

It was hardly a surprise to hear the mighty roar of a lion at the Indianapolis Zoo. Chances were it was just Nyack, the zoo's "very vocal" 10-year-old male African lion.

An imposingly tall giraffe, powerful African lions and proud Bengal tigers are among the many highlights of a zoo -- created by wealthy drug traffickers -- that is like a Garden of Eden in the green mountains of Honduras.

Sometime after the sun set Sunday, a group of men entered a dark South African reserve carrying a high-powered rifle, a silencer, an ax and a wire cutter - tools that poachers use to shoot and kill rhinos before sawing off their horns, according to Nick Fox, the owner of Sibuya Game Reserve.

18-year-old African lioness Bridget, a resident of Oklahoma Zoo and Botanical Garden, has developed a sudden growth of what looks like a beard. Experts say a mane in female lion is rare but not unheard of.

South African police say poachers have decapitated and chopped the paws off three male lions, apparently for use in traditional medicine.

The fourth episode of the on-going British natural history programme, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, took viewers into the deserts. Here's our discussion after watching that very episode.

A year ago, an American killed a lion in Zimbabwe in what authorities said was an illegal hunt, infuriating people worldwide and invigorating an international campaign against trophy hunting in Africa. Some conservationists, however, warn there are greater threats to Africa's beleaguered lion populations, including human encroachment on their habit...

AB de Villiers played a stellar role in taking RCB to their third IPL final. The South African's 79 not out off 47 balls helped Bangalore script a stunning victory from the jaws of defeat vs Gujarat Lions

Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers blasted centuries as Royal Challengers Bangalore notched up 248/3, their highest score in the Indian Premier League as they plundered the Gujarat Lions. RCB won the match by 144 runs.

India and Gujarat Lions' Shivil Kaushik has emerged as the proud heir to the South African spinner's "frog-in-a-blender" action

Lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru and airlifted to South Africa scratched their manes on trees and explored their new territory in the African bush after being released into a sanctuary north of Johannesburg Sunday.

Staff rescued and handed over to the police a man who was walking on the boulders of the African Lion moat area at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Online calls grew Sunday to help save five "malnourished and sick" African lions held at a park in Sudan's capital, with some demanding the creatures be shifted to a better habitat.

South African police on Saturday said they had launched an investigation after eight mutilated lion carcasses were discovered at a private game farm.

A young lion captured after being on the run for almost a month spent the night in a South African police cell before being moved back to its national park home.

It was hardly a surprise to hear the mighty roar of a lion at the Indianapolis Zoo. Chances were it was just Nyack, the zoo's "very vocal" 10-year-old male African lion.

An imposingly tall giraffe, powerful African lions and proud Bengal tigers are among the many highlights of a zoo -- created by wealthy drug traffickers -- that is like a Garden of Eden in the green mountains of Honduras.

Sometime after the sun set Sunday, a group of men entered a dark South African reserve carrying a high-powered rifle, a silencer, an ax and a wire cutter - tools that poachers use to shoot and kill rhinos before sawing off their horns, according to Nick Fox, the owner of Sibuya Game Reserve.

18-year-old African lioness Bridget, a resident of Oklahoma Zoo and Botanical Garden, has developed a sudden growth of what looks like a beard. Experts say a mane in female lion is rare but not unheard of.

South African police say poachers have decapitated and chopped the paws off three male lions, apparently for use in traditional medicine.

The fourth episode of the on-going British natural history programme, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, took viewers into the deserts. Here's our discussion after watching that very episode.

A year ago, an American killed a lion in Zimbabwe in what authorities said was an illegal hunt, infuriating people worldwide and invigorating an international campaign against trophy hunting in Africa. Some conservationists, however, warn there are greater threats to Africa's beleaguered lion populations, including human encroachment on their habit...

AB de Villiers played a stellar role in taking RCB to their third IPL final. The South African's 79 not out off 47 balls helped Bangalore script a stunning victory from the jaws of defeat vs Gujarat Lions

Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers blasted centuries as Royal Challengers Bangalore notched up 248/3, their highest score in the Indian Premier League as they plundered the Gujarat Lions. RCB won the match by 144 runs.

India and Gujarat Lions' Shivil Kaushik has emerged as the proud heir to the South African spinner's "frog-in-a-blender" action

Lions rescued from circuses in Colombia and Peru and airlifted to South Africa scratched their manes on trees and explored their new territory in the African bush after being released into a sanctuary north of Johannesburg Sunday.