The famous man-eaters likely killed far less people than reported and are no bigger than other lions — although they lack ...

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 ...

Experience the wonder of the Serengeti, home to the largest mammal migration and diverse wildlife, including big cats and ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Ian Hatton and fellow researchers started looking at the numbers of predators and prey in parks across southern and eastern Africa, they found a very consistent relationship between the ...

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 ...

Lion who was 'king' of the Serengeti 'had no chance' against rivalsLion who was 'king' of the Serengeti 'had no chance' against rivals ...