The mountain lions' prey included deer, elk, bighorn sheep, coyotes, feral horses, beaver and porcupines. Cougars aren't easy creatures to study.

Female lions have long been observed to rely on cooperative strategies to hunt their prey. While some studies demonstrated that male lions are as capable at hunting as females, the males are less ...

Mountain lions were treed in the winter to capture them for collaring in the Canadian study. The study found that adult male lions were more likely to kill less but bigger prey than females.

New research, however, suggests male lions can be quite successful hunters, too, but they use solitary, ambush-style techniques to attack their prey instead of the cooperative stalking strategies ...

Lions typically don’t attempt a kill that is impossible, so it is not normal for them to lose. The post Predator Becomes Prey: 8 Animals That Can Kill a Lion appeared first on A-Z Animals.

Lions apparently flee the scenes of their crimes, withdrawing after successful kills while other potential prey are still on high alert, researchers have found by using satellites to track some of ...

The lion may be considered the king of the jungle, but this doesn’t mean this predator is invincible. They will go after some very tough prey that will fight back with considerable strength and ...

Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs trapped ...

Female lion with wildebeest kill in Tanzania. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. For a long time male lions were derided as the lazy ones in the pride, depending on females for the bulk of hunting and not ...

Los Angeles mountain lions hunt closer to human settlements than expected While male lions prey on deer in riparian woodlands, females hunt on average less than a mile from human development Date ...