Once Sikich was within 20 feet of the cougar, he drew the tube to his lips and aimed for the lion’s haunches. It would be ten minutes before the cat—the 22nd captured for this study ...

Simba (left) was named after a cartoon film lion cub A cat named after the Lion King film character Simba has been found seven months after going missing - near Colchester Zoo's big cats enclosure.

Earlier this year, I came across a striking image of a lion undergoing a Computerized Axial Tomography scan (or CAT scan). I tweeted out the image, and it got over 2,000 retweets. People were ...