Josh the lion, Birmingham’s own Lion King ... to identify a new male companion for Akili. Josh arrived in April 2022. In 2012, Akili’s offspring, the zoo’s five African lion cubs, left ...

to 40,000 when the first Lion King came out, to around 20,000 today. Whereas lions were once dispersed throughout the African continent, they now occupy only 8 percent of their historic range.

While The Lion ... African plains. Taka is ecstatic to find another cub, as he always wanted a brother. However, Taka’s father, Obasi (voiced by Lennie James), wants nothing to do with Mufasa ...