because wild lions are difficult to count ... (an international felid conservation group), Duke University, the National Geographic Society’s Big Cats Initiative, and elsewhere, indicate ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic ... An adult male lion, if he’s lucky and durable, might attain the advanced age of 12 in the wild. Adult females can live ...

On the Great Plains below Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya lions are attacking Maasai cattle as they have for hundreds of years And the proud Maasai warriors have hunted them ruthlessly in return so ...