The Maasai Mara remains the country’s most famous safari destination, but central Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau is growing in ...
Extremely rare evidence of a lion attack on a teenage boy's remains suggests the teenager survived the initial trauma but ...
Across the continent there are only 20,000 lions left in the wild. In the east African nation of Kenya there are only 2500. Thankfully, incredible work is taking place to restore the lion population ...
If you have ever wondered where Kenya’s super-rich escape when they want to dine under the stars, sleep in tents fit for ...
The Maasai Football League in Amboseli is transforming young Maasai morans’ attitudes, reducing lion hunting, and promoting wildlife conservation while fostering local sporting talent.
If the Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo finally part ways, here are the teams best positioned for a run at the ...
In the Maasai tradition, becoming a warrior once meant hunting and killing a full-grown male lion—alone. No weapons beyond a spear. No help. No second chances. Lionesses were sacred and off-limits.
Being a full-fledged member of any society was an important thing in many of the world’s oldest cultures. To be a part of the community, of the tribe, or the family, is one of the strongest human ...
The chief warrior of a Masai village is found dead on the savanna, from a lion attack. A drought ensues and the land, animals, and villagers are dying. The elders decide that the best way to bring the ...
Lion cubs are born tiny and helpless, but they can already walk by two weeks and begin eating meat around three months. Baby lions need their mother’s protection for the first two to three years.
When you give a Maasai warrior a 7-iron, he instinctively compares it to the spear in his other hand. He carries that traditional, effective weapon every day from his adolescent rites of passage ...
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “Simba!” The urgent whisper — ‘lion’ in Swahili — comes from Julius Naurori as he stands bolt upright in the back of our 4WD like a ...