The incident should prompt a rethink of our approach to wild animals in captivity, and whether it’s right – or safe – to keep them there at all.
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A monitoring approach led by wildlife rangers could make for better counting of lions in many parts of their African range.
Male lions are making the risky swims, braving crocodiles and hippos, so as to find females.
New science shows that estimates of the African lion numbers are underpinned by weak methods. But several new studies from Kenya and Uganda show that lions can be counted robustly.
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