This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate ...

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 ...

Stellers are the largest of all sea lions and they have an appetite to match. These giant pinnipeds hunt fish, squid, octopus and, rarely, smaller seals. They are found off northern Pacific coasts ...

Baby elephants live under the watchful eye of their mothers until they are fully grown. Mother elephants are incredibly ...

Are South Africa’s captive lions inbred? Are South Africa’s captive lions inbred? Inside the race to save West Africa’s endangered lions Inside the race to save West Africa’s endangered ...

Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species.

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 ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A young male lion was one of three members of Kenya’s famous Marsh Pride to die in 2015 after eating a cow carcass ...

Fun fact: Did you know lions are the only known cat species to roar together? In their "prides," or groups, lions will roar to mark their territory, according to the World Wildlife Fund.