(Male lions, not strictly belonging to any pride ... each hungry for food and for chances to mate, and you have craziness. But a lone male, or a coalition that’s too small—just a pair ...

Tojo the lion guards the Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa (1965) Lions breed all year round and it is estimated that lions copulate around 3,000 times for every cub that survives for over a year.