Can big cats co-exist? Study challenges lion threat to cheetah cubs
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
New research into cheetah cub survival has refuted the theory that lions are a cub's main predator and that big cats cannot coexist in conservation areas. The study, published in the Journal of Zoology, found that cubs in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park were seven times more likely to survive then on the Serengeti Plains and that lions were not found to be the cubs' main predatory threat.