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 ...

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.

An identical twin to the Sea Bird, the National Geographic Sea Lion offers 62 passengers soft-adventure voyages along the Mexican coast, in Alaska, and Central America. As with all Lindblad ...

Sir Edwin Landseer had hoped to sculpt the Trafalgar Square lions as prowling but was asked to represent them lying down because it was cheaper. Haile Selassie was guarded at all times by lions.