Now, for the first time in half-a-decade, a camera trap has captured video footage of the solitary giant, offering a haunting ...

Some animal videos are cute and cuddly, but others remind us that nature can be brutal as well as beautiful. An excellent ...

Though they can be confused for their southern relatives, the west African lion, or Panthera leo, is more genetically similar to the Asiatic species in India, The Guardian said. The big cats are ...

One was the African lion (Panthera leo leo) and the other was the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica). The difference between the two was simple enough to describe, African lions lived in Africa ...

(The results have not yet been peer-reviewed.) The unidentified African lion (Panthera leo), which was around 20 years old and resided at Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, tested positive for SARS-CoV ...

Florence, nicknamed “Flo,” is a 9 to 10-year-old female West African lion living in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park, the wildlife organization Panthera and Senegal’s Department of ...

In the wild, there are two formally recognised lion subspecies. The African lion (Panthera leo leo) is found in Africa, south of the Sahara desert. The Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) exists in ...

West African lions were recognized only recently ... He and Everatt think the park can support between 180 and 240 lions. Panthera and the park service are aiming for that number because recovery ...

The situation is especially acute at the edges of protected areas (PAs), where animals like the African lion (Panthera leo) range outside PAs and into human-dominated landscapes. There, they ...

West African lions are critically endangered, with only 120 to 374 remaining in the wild. Florence is the mother of an estimated nine cubs, including the first males in NKNP. Panthera and Senegal ...