The decision by the Copenhagen Zoo to shoot dead its giraffe, named Marius, in February to prevent inbreeding sparked widespread outrage. The killing of four healthy lions has prompted further dismay.

She was one of the triplet lion cubs who came to the Syracuse zoo in 2001 when they were less than a year old. Her sister, Mindine, died in 2014. And her brother, Joshua, died in 2015.

Lions have escaped a zoo in recent history, but it was in Australia Yes, on Nov. 2, 2022 four lion cubs and an adult male lion escaped their enclosure at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.

Image shows the lion enclosure in the Vienna Zoo in Austria in an undated photo. It was modernized with a new rocky landscape in August, 2022, 20 years after it opened.

The Lion house at the San Francisco Zoo. The San Francisco Zoo is Reopening its lion house where a animal keeper was mauled in December. The Zoo will resume its public feedings of the big cats on ...

The zoo also said that as lions groom themselves by licking their fur, which can cause changes to how their mane looks from time to time. It's not uncommon for a lion's mane to change over time.

Oglebay Good Zoo is preparing to unleash an unforgettable adventure in 2026 with the arrival of lions, taking the visitor experience to a whole new level. With the debut of a cutting-edge lion ...

A baby lion was born in October, the Fort Worth Zoo announced in a Facebook post on Jan. 11, 2024. The cub, named Moja, is the first to be born at the Texas zoo since 2015.

A zoo in China has angered visitors by trying to pass off a hairy dog as a lion, Chinese state media reported. A visitor, surnamed Liu, told the state-run Beijing Youth Daily she discovered the ...

The lions habitat can be seen from above at the Fort Worth Zoo’s new exhibit Predators of Asia & Africa on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

The zoo staff said they are carefully monitoring the baby and will do a more thorough examination once he gets more acquainted with them. His dad is Seahawk, one of the sea lions in residence at ...