The confident, sassy female African lion named Zuri was always pretty much in charge of her three-member pride at the Topeka Zoo, says her animal curator Shanna Simpson. But zoo staff members were ...

The lion, Zuri, arrived at the Columbia-based Zoo in 2005 and has been a “cherished member of the Riverbanks family” for nearly two decades. While the zoo did not specify how Zuri died ...