In what Panthera describes as a "thrilling sign of recovery for the critically endangered West African lion," the video footage shows the big cat eating an animal carcass while her 3-month-old ...

Though they can be confused for their southern relatives, the west African lion, or Panthera leo, is more genetically similar to the Asiatic species in India, The Guardian said.

Named after Ousmane Sarr, a veteran park ranger who dedicated his life to protecting Niokolo-Koba's endangered species, the elephant steps silently into view in the black-and-white footage. His large ...

Panthera began monitoring the small West African lion population in Senegal in 2011. Since it hired highly trained anti-poaching brigades, it has seen the lion population more than double, from 10 ...

Lion scratching itself in the morning sun in Kenya. Image by Rhett Butler/Mongabay. Panthera, an international nonprofit organization whose work contributed to the findings of the study, says that ...

Florence, nicknamed “Flo,” is a 9 to 10-year-old female West African lion living in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park, the wildlife organization Panthera and Senegal’s Department of ...

An elephant not seen in several years was recently captured on camera strolling through a national park in Senegal. This ...

One of the Selati male lion coalition calling to his brothers. The ability to roar is unique to the big cats of the genus Panthera, the other members of the genus are the tiger, leopard and jaguar.

1. Nearly all wild lions live in Africa, but one small population exists elsewhere. In the wild, there are two formally recognised lion subspecies. The African lion (Panthera leo leo) is found in ...

The situation is especially acute at the edges of protected areas (PAs), where animals like the African lion (Panthera leo) range outside PAs and into human-dominated landscapes. There, they ...

The unidentified African lion (Panthera leo), which was around 20 years old and resided at Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in December 2021 after developing a cough ...