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 ...

Africa’s iconic big cats including lions leopards and cheetahs inhabit a range of environments from the vast grasslands of the Serengeti and Maasai Mara to the dense forests of Central Africa ...

A recent safari in the Serengeti was supposed to get my mind ... Instead, as I was watching wildebeests, lion, elephants and zebras in their natural habitat, I couldn’t help but be struck ...

I slept in canvas tents across Tanzania's Serengeti National Park for a week ... We stopped to watch a herd of elephants and spotted a lion rustling in the bush. It seemed impossible to top ...

Smithsonian staff writer Abigail Tucker came across imperiled zebras, dusty savannahs and perilous roads while researching the Tanzanian lions. Read more at http ...

William Fortescue (UK) uses a backdrop of storm clouds lit by the setting sun to show mating lions. It was the rainy season when William visited the Serengeti National Park. He watched the lions mate ...