Even after 500,000 years of bullying, I just can’t stop doing it… There are some researchers who think lions are big bullies. They kill cheetahs and wild dogs for example, and are just plain naughty animals for causing such mayhem among sympatric predators. For cheetahs, Sarah Durant and co-authors had this to say in the […]
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The Port of Dover, headquarters of LionAid, turns out to have a heraldic association with lions. Dover, along with Hastings, Hythe, New Romney, and Sandwich were designated in 1155 as the Cinque Ports (five ports) to maintain ships ready for the Crown in case of “need”. In return, the ports received benefits such as exemption
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What makes lions different from other large cats? Well, yes, the males have manes and lions have tufts on their tail tips, but the main difference is that they have a system of sociality not found among any other cat species. It is also a system of sociality not found among the more truly social
LOSS OF AN APEX PREDATOR LionAid is often asked the following question: “If lions were to go extinct in the wild, what would be the consequences on the ecosystem?”. It is a fair question, and in all truth the answer must be that we don’t really know. Even though lions have suffered local extinctions in
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One of the many definitions of “culture” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is: “the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behaviour that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations”. Behavioural biologists have long known that this definition of culture also exists among animals, that cultural differences exist among different
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