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 ...

Born in Indonesia to Victor Raoul Baron von Lawick and Isabella Sophia Baroness van Ittersum he developed an early love for animals He determined that film would be his medium to capture the ...

And in the plains of Togoro, halfway between Seronera and Lobo in the northern part of the Serengeti, there are very special kopjes. Lions lie on ... the interior is also movie-like with spacious ...

A lion known as the king of the Serengeti has been killed by rivals. Tour operators and visitors to the national park have paid tribute to the "legendary" Bob Junior - also known as Snyggve - online.