Skipper calls for Lions pride
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Lions captain Paul O'Connell has promised a spirited showing in the final Test against South Africa.
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The Science of Lion Prides
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Although the paper addresses Tanzanian lions, this is a photograph of a Namibian lion Starting some years ago, we began to hear about revisions of the standard models of lion behavioral biology coming out of Craig Packer's research in the Serengeti. One of the most startling findings, first shown (if memory serves) as part of a dynamic optimization model and subsequently...
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Lions Defend Turf Like Gangstas
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Lion prides display the behavior of human gangs not to hunt more efficiently, but to defend their turf, researchers have discovered. The larger the prides, the more successfully lions keep out interlopers, reports the BBC. Scientists have long been stumped by why lions are singularly sociable among cats and what purpose prides serve. Experts theorized prides improved hunting, but...
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Lion prides operate like street gangs
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
I thought this was an interesting anthropological observation : "The most important way to think about this is that lion prides are like street gangs," says [lion researcher Craig] Packer. "They compete for turf. The bigger the gang, the more successful it is at controlling the best areas. The main difference from humans is that these are gangs of female lions."...
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Lions pride plenty to play for insists Jones
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Stephen Jones urged the British and Irish Lions to produce one final push and end their tour of South Africa on a high with victory over the Springboks in Saturday's third and final Test.
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Lion Prides
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Matt Walker of the BBC : Lions form prides to defend territory against other lions, not to improve their hunting success, a study reveals. In doing so, they act much like street gangs, gathering together to protect their turf from interlopers, says a leading lion expert.
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Lions form gangs to win turf wars
Bengal Classifieds Bulletin (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
A recent study has rfevealed that Lions form prides to defend territory against other lions – not to improve their hunting success. In doing so, they act much like street gangs, gathering together to protect their turf from interlopers, says a leading lion expert. The bigger the gang, the more successful the lions are, information that could [...]
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Lion prides form to win turf wars
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Lions form prides to defend territory against other lions, not to improve their hunting success, new research reveals.
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Size Of Lion Prides Correlated To Quality of Life, Territory
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Lions in Africa and Asia form prides in similar fashion to street gangs in order to protect their territory from other encroaching cats, according to new research.Researchers told BBC News that larger gangs have higher survival rates, which could help future conservation efforts.Researchers have observed lions forming prides, which consist of one or...
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naked capitalism (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Lion prides form to win turf wars BBC Bottoms up for winning artist The Sun Sowell: Obama Will Lead to Sharia Matthew Yglesias. This is the political equivalent of a Weekly World News story, but at least the WWN folks were sufficiently in contact with reality to know they were making the stuff up. I imagined they all got high before their editorial meetings. So what's Sowell's excuse? Pedestrians,...