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By gregladen on February 11, 2012.

This is a lion:
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Click the picture for a larger version of the photograph. Photo by Greg Laden.

And here are selected blog posts about lions and related beasts:

  • Amboseli Lions May Go Extinct
  • The Evolution of Cats: Sabertooth vs. Regular
  • Tarangire Lions
  • The Lion That Ate the Earthwatcher
  • Biker and Greg get Eaten by Lions
  • The Lion, The Tent, and the Anthropologist
  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Lion Panthera leo Revealed by Host and Viral Population Genomics
  • The Science of Lion Prides
  • Lions being all liony
  • Where the lion sleeps tonight
  • On the Ownership of Large Dangerous Wild Animals
  • http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/a_field_guide_to_all_of_the_ca.php

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Greg did you ever eat lion?

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