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 ...

And in the plains of Togoro, halfway between Seronera and Lobo in the northern part of the Serengeti, there are very special kopjes. Lions lie on them to bask in the sun. The warmth of the stone ...

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Q: You really did get up close and personal with the lions. A: We did. We had incredible intimacy. Our car was closer than close, just a few feet away. We saw cubs when they were tiny and watched ...

Difficult times are built in to the life cycle on the Serengeti. Every year there is a dry season which tests the survival instincts of every species. Difficult times make for hard choices. Lions ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Just 20 minutes earlier, I was at the Seronera Airstrip in Central Serengeti. I joined dozens ... countless elephants and giraffes, spotted lions, and tracked down hippos. The animals were ...

In contrast, Serengeti lions spend only 12% of their time on the move, with 8% for travelling and 4% for hunting. Kausik Banerjee, one of the researchers, noted, “The study in Gir has been on ...