Giving zoo lions whole carcasses on a feast-and-fast schedule appears to bring out more natural behavior. The lions spent nearly three times longer feeding, engaged in more tearing and manipulating of ...
Three nine-year-old male African lions at Monarto Safari Park in South Australia were given about 200 kilograms of whole kangaroo and goat carcasses every nine days, and on carcass days they spent an ...
A new Australian study suggests that zoo lions behave more like their wild counterparts when they are given whole animal carcasses as part of a feast ...