Photo of the Day #772: Sleepy lions

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The Bronx Zoo's lion (Panthera leo) family taking a nap.


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Grace the lion (Panthera leo) rolling over, photographed at the Bronx zoo.
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Grace, a female lion (Panthera leo), watches the geese and kudu in the adjacent enclosure. Her mate George dozes nearby. (Photographed on July 23, 2008 at the Bronx Zoo.)

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.)

By Phillip IV (not verified) on 24 Nov 2009 #permalink

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.