This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate ...

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 ...

Stellers are the largest of all sea lions and they have an appetite to match. These giant pinnipeds hunt fish, squid, octopus and, rarely, smaller seals. They are found off northern Pacific coasts ...

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 ...

Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species.

But it does take time and conscience to develop courage.” I remember the first time I ran away from a lion. I was basically a kid—21 years old—and my partner and I were tracking a pride ...