The Gujarat government insists that the Gir forest, the lions’ only natural habitat, has a sufficient prey base, and in ...

Asiatic lions, or Panthera leo persica, are a lion subspecies, just like the better-known African lion. These powerful apex predators roamed the forests of India, the deserts of the Middle East ...

The Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) is an endangered species found exclusively in the Gir Forest of Gujarat, India. Unlike their African counterparts, these lions have adapted to a unique ...

A deadly combination of canine distemper virus and babesiosis, a disease caused by tick-borne parasites, is killing Asiatic lions in the Gir forest ... of the remaining of the 523 big cats (Panthera ...