Lions

Some 40,000 years ago, a man or a woman, or a group of people, whose names, faces and language we will never know, selected ivory from a mammoth and spent many, many hours in the cold days and long nights of the last ice age in what today is southern Germany, probably next to a fire in a cave, carving a sacred object - an idol which combines the head and shoulders of a lion with the lower body

Three lion and four tiger cubs, born nearly four months ago in the Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Zoo, have been taken to the section where their mothers live and introduced to visitors. The cubs had previously lived in a special section.

Four lion cubs, given as a gift to Turkey's president from his Sudanese counterpart during a recent visit to Africa, went on public display on Jan. 13. 

Four lion cubs given as a gift to Turkey’s president from his Sudanese counterpart during his recent visit to Africa arrived in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Jan. 11.

Three lion cubs born in Bulgaria's Razgrad zoo are to be sold by closed public tender at a starting price of BGN 1,800, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency informs.

The Razgrad Municipal Council will make the final decision on whether to sell the cubs at its forthcoming meeting on October 28.

Three lion cubs, which were born three months ago at the Anadolu Harikalar Diyarı Zoo in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, have been named by public votes.