African safari and wildlife expert Rob the Ranger shares the thrilling sounds of lion roars echoing through the Maasai Mara’s ...

Mashika, a female lion, gets a reward from Ashleigh Kandrac after she caught a zebra-striped lure at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

Because there was less cover for lions to hide in, from 2003 to 2020 the proportion of lion-zebra kills declined from 67% to 42%, their research found. To the surprise of the researchers, the ...

The lions get one zebra, but the zebra's clustering technique minimizes losses. This melding of color and movement is especially conspicuous among fish.

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s Science Quickly. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hopkin: Why did the lion take down a buffalo instead of a zebra? Because of the big-headed ants! I know, I know.