The Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP) rescued a family of lions from Ukraine and the mother became pregnant while on contraception before the two-year-old male had had a successful vasectomy. The ...

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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 ...

Lack of connectivity due to decades of extending roads and development into mountain lion habitat, with little regard for the animals’ movement needs, is causing their demise. This has led to high ...

Barriers prevent young mountain lions from migrating in or out to establish their own home ranges and find mates. That’s causing dangerous inbreeding and genetic-diversity declines, leaving some ...

The birth of three lion cubs at a UK wildlife park was the result of an incestuous mating between a mother and her son ...