By laelaps on November 24, 2009. The Bronx Zoo's lion (Panthera leo) family taking a nap. Tags Cats mammals Photography Log in to post comments More like this Ha, lions in the high gravity zone. Log in to post comments Seems like all the lions are down at the moment. (Or at least all the land lions. Perhaps the sea lions are in better shape.) Log in to post comments It's a tragedy how lions have gone from living on 5 continents during the Ice Age to less than 30,000 in Africa today. I can only hope that they won't become extinct in the wild and found only in zoos, even one as fine as the Bronx Zoo. Log in to post comments
Seems like all the lions are down at the moment. (Or at least all the land lions. Perhaps the sea lions are in better shape.) Log in to post comments
It's a tragedy how lions have gone from living on 5 continents during the Ice Age to less than 30,000 in Africa today. I can only hope that they won't become extinct in the wild and found only in zoos, even one as fine as the Bronx Zoo. Log in to post comments
Ha, lions in the high gravity zone.
Seems like all the lions are down at the moment. (Or at least all the land lions. Perhaps the sea lions are in better shape.)
It's a tragedy how lions have gone from living on 5 continents during the Ice Age to less than 30,000 in Africa today. I can only hope that they won't become extinct in the wild and found only in zoos, even one as fine as the Bronx Zoo.