Lions might be the kings of beasts, but only when they’re in their element. The accompanying footage, captured in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, shows a hippo ambushing a male lion and ...

"We recognize the importance of reconfirming the sex of introduced animals, and will take precautions to ensure that this does not happen again," said the zoo Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer ...

Don’t be fooled by the mane and roar. The female is the primary hunter in the lion kingdom, not the male. “The Lion King” hinted at this more than 30 years ago, when Mufasa's brother Scar purred at ...

A lion that had become stranded on a rock in a South African river soon discovered that it had much larger problems. The accompanying footage, featured Tuesday by Latest Sightings, shows several ...

Some animal videos are cute and cuddly, but others remind us that nature can be brutal as well as beautiful. An excellent example is this YouTube clip capturing a vicious fight between some lions.

When Japan's Osaka Tennoji Zoo took in a hippo named Gen-chan seven years ago, they were told the young animal was a male. Recently, they took a DNA test and found out the mammal is actually a female.