Lions

Teenager with dreams of becoming lion tamer mauled to death by big cats after entering enclosure

The 19-year-old had previously tried to sneak onto a flight to Africa in hopes of being with the big cats.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A lion roars inside its enclosure at a zoo in Peshawar, Pakistan December 13, 2021.
A pet lion escaped in Lahore and attacked a woman and two children.

Authorities make arrest after unlicensed pet lion attacks woman and two children

The lion reportedly escaped from a farmhouse into an alleyway in Johan on Thursday. Footage revealed the lion was able to leap over the concrete wall into the alley. 

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A lion roars inside its enclosure at a zoo in Peshawar, Pakistan December 13, 2021.

Pakistan confiscates 18 illegal lions after one escapes, attacks woman and children

Pakistani authorities confiscated the lions that were kept as pets illegally after one of them escaped and attacked a woman and two children in the country's Punjab province.

|ByREUTERS
A young lion

Terror on the street: Lion escapes from home and attacks woman and two children

Security cameras captured the moment a lion raised in a home's yard leaped into a busy street, knocked a woman to the ground, and scratched two children in the face.

|ByWALLA!

Colorado runner chokes lion to death with bare hands

The runner, a man in his 30s, was out for a run in Larimer County on West Ridge Trial when he was attacked from the behind by an 80-pound lion and bitten on his face and wrist.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019BySARA RUBENSTEIN
A MALE African lion stalks his prey through the bush in South Africa’s Addo Elephant National Park

WATCH: Lions get their morning caffeine fix at Israeli safari

Because sometimes even lions need a wake up call.

MARCH 26, 2018ByYOCHEVED LAUREN LAUFER
Lions at the Ramat Gan Safari

Iraqi, Syrian Lions Find New Home In South Africa

Lions rescued from Mideast conflict zones transferred to animal sanctuary

FEBRUARY 28, 2018ByDANIELLA P. COHEN/THE MEDIA LINE
Lion

Gazan zookeeper takes to social media to sell lion cubs

Muhammad Ahmad Jumaa wrote in a Facebook post that he was selling the cubs for $5,000 each, and that the profits would go towards taking care of the pride of lions in the zoo.

DECEMBER 27, 2017ByILANIT CHERNICK
A lion cub from a zoo in Gaza in its new home in Amman, July 2015