Lions are a lucrative business in South Africa. Forget the earnings from tourists in Kruger National Park, hundreds of ‘lion farms’ have been attracting trophy hunters- mainly from US-since the late 1990s. Two years ago, when the US banned the import of lion trophies, the farms turned their attention to hunters in poorer places like […]
There are around 2,500 leopards in Karnataka, double the number estimated in the 2015 tiger census, as per the first-ever estimates of the spotted cat conducted in the state by the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) and the state forest department . While the latest estimation covered entire states, the 2015 exercise that estimated 1,129 leopards in […]
Lions are territorial and organise themselves into groups, called prides, whose members interact peacefully with each other. The core group of a pride consists of closely related lioness and their offspring. A group of male lions numbering between two to seven may associate with with one or more such female groups. These male groups are […]
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