Jacob, a 10-year-old lion living in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, has been through a lot. Now walking on just three legs, Jacob has been gored by a buffalo, poisoned by humans, caught in a ...

A pair of lion brothers have been captured on video taking a death-defying 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) swim across a Ugandan river packed with predators – a sign of increasing human-caused pressures ...

On February 4, scientists monitoring lion populations in Uganda captured nighttime thermal drone footage of two lions—brothers dubbed Jacob and Tibu by the Uganda Wildlife Authority—swimming across ...

Two African lion brothers recently broke the record for the longest documented swim across a body of water. The swim was made more impressive by the fact that the water was teeming with crocodiles and ...

When night fell on Uganda’s second-largest national park in early February, Jacob, a three-legged African lion, made several attempts to cross a dangerous channel with his brother, Tibu. They seemed ...

Ugandan lion brothers Jacob and Tibu were filmed swimming a mile across the Kazinga Channel in Uganda — the longest swim ever recorded for the species —after getting their "butts kicked" by rival ...

Jacob, and his brother Tibu, made history when they swam two-thirds of a mile across a “predator-infested” river in Uganda. Griffith University Jacob, a 10-year-old lion living in Uganda’s Queen ...