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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It was my fifth day in the Serengeti, but it was my first time seeing ... We observed countless elephants and giraffes, spotted lions, and tracked down hippos. The animals were incredible, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Situated in Central Serengeti about 32 miles northwest of Naabi ... Other animals, such as lions, elephants and leopards, can also be spotted here. And if you're interested in the park's ties ...