Kansas City residents and animal lovers are mourning the loss of a famous, 19-year-old lion who passed away inside the Kansas City Zoo last week.

The Jua Kalis would forget him. This is the cold arithmetic of lion society. Cubs of the Simba East pride: too young to kill but old enough to crave meat. Adult females, and sometimes males ...

A lion has grown so old that it can no longer catch its prey. It comes up with the idea of using trickery, claiming to be sick, then catching animals that show sympathy and come to help ...