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 ...

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 ...

Dar es Salaam. From the comfort of the safari trucks, tourists visiting the wild East African nation of Tanzania have witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody wars known in the animal kingdoms.

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 ...

Recent study has revealed some interesting differences in the activity levels and patterns of these lions compared to their African relatives in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.The hustle ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lions are the only big cats to live in large ... Sometimes survival in the Serengeti depends on wisdom, not strength or speed. Nalla is the matriarch of a peaceful elephant herd, and her new ...

The primary reason to visit Serengeti National Park is to witness The Great Migration. Considered one of the world's largest animal migrations, The Great Migration involves more than one million ...

a scientist who studies lions in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. Lion society, as seen in Nature of Things doc Mommy Wildest, is actually run by the ladies. They raise their cubs in a ...

This acacia-covered hill also acts as the home base for a pride of lions and welcomes millions of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles during their annual Great Migration to Eastern Serengeti to breed ...