In certain areas, male lions delay growing manes until they are much older than other lions. These are known as maneless lions. And strangely enough, three of the most notorious man-eating lions were maneless! The largest man eating lion on record, the Man-Eater of Mfuwe, measured 5 feet from floor to his ears and 10 […]
The Mane Thing About Lions…
The King of the Jungle…the lion. Surveys tell us that most people, though they have trouble naming many other animals shown to them, can identify a male lion.That’s a relief! There are eight types of lion, most of which live in Africa. Asiatic lions, like the ones pictured below, live in the Gir Forest in India: Most lions are […]
Conservation in Kenya | Cincinnati Zoo Blog
Billy and I were selected to join the Zoo team headed to the South Rift of Kenya, where we spent a week immersed in the Maasai culture. After a bumpy and dusty three-hour truck ride from the capital city of Nairobi, we found ourselves in a land teeming with zebra, giraffe, baboons, and gazelles, with evidence of […]