Rural Radio Network

Mountain Lion hunting season approved for Wildcat Hills

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved staff recommendations for a 2025 mountain lion hunting season at its June 21 ...
Yahoo

Blondie the Lion Is Already Being Called the “Next Cecil.” Here’s Why That’s a Problem for Lion Conservation in Africa

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male lion photographed in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Whenever a lion or elephant or some other animal that has been named ...
ScienceBlog

We tend to think of lions as Africa’s ultimate killers, but a lone lion hunting in daylight succeeds in only about one chase in five, while packs of the endangered, large ...

African wild dog pack in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. Photo by flowcomm via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. The lion owns the human imagination in a way few predators ever have. It is the animal ...
ScienceBlog

Tiny ant species disrupts lion’s hunting behavior

What makes the little old ant think he can disrupt the life of an African lion? Researchers say it’s more than just high hopes. In a study published today in the journal Science, a team of scientists ...
PBS

Mountain Lion vs. Elk: Rare Hunt Caught on Camera

Mountain lions risk everything to hunt elk, prey more than twice their size. After ten years of monitoring mountain lions in Montana, this crew has captured this behavior on camera only four times.