India's vibrant ecosystems are home to extraordinary wildlife, such as the majestic Asiatic lion, the rare Sangai deer, and ...

The Asiatic lion (panthera leo persica) is similar in most respects to its African cousins. The most prominent differences are a fold of skin that runs along its belly and a reduced mane in males.

The Asiatic lion lives in the Gir Forest of western India. And while you might assume that the African lions from west and central Africa are more closely related to each other than to Asian lions ...

I never imagined it was one I could relive. And yet, here I was, in London of all places, doing just that. At 4:30 p.m., check-in time, Joy, our Gir Lion Lodge host, escorted us to one of the nine ...

In August 2022, three white tiger cubs were born, but one died after four months. ... As per the last census conducted in June 2020, the state is home to 674 Asiatic lions, ...

The Asiatic lion population in India has grown by nearly a third in five years, to 891 from 674 in 2020, according to the latest census. “Not only did the count go up by 217 but the animals were ...

Slightly smaller than their African lion cousins, adult male Asiatic lions weigh between 350 and 420 pounds, while females range between 240 and 260 pounds, according to World Wildlife Fund India.

Asiatic lion. Photo by: Sumeet Moghe/Creative Commons 3.0. A new survey last month put the number of wild Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica) at 523 individuals, a rise of 27% from the previous ...

According to its 2019-20 report, the Valandur Zoo had 15 “Hybrid Lions” in its collection. Hybrid lions are crossbreeds between the African Lion and the critically endangered Asiatic Lion ...

In the study, published May 4 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers discovered that cave lions didn’t interbreed with other types of lions, found that Asiatic lions ...