This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. They say that cats have nine lives, but they don’t say that about the Serengeti lion. Life is hard and precarious on ...

Q: You really did get up close and personal with the lions. A: We did. We had incredible intimacy. Our car was closer than close, just a few feet away. We saw cubs when they were tiny and watched ...

National Geographic is doing what it does best this ... The second installment of its "Savage Kingdom," series features warring lion clans struggling for survival in a remote region of Botswana.