The Northern African triplets were born to lioness Winta and Malik - both three ... studies in 2017 showed that of the two distinct subspecies of African lion - Northern and Southern - Northern ...

A quartet of adorable lion cubs have been pictured taking their first steps outside a zoo near Cambridgeshire. Whipsnade Zoo ...

Their parents, three-year-old lioness Winta, and three-year-old dad ... the three cubs were part of a Northern African lion subspecies, that was first identified in 1758 but only officially ...

just two months after lioness Winta had her litter of three. The litters, born at the UK’s largest zoo, are part of the conservation breeding programme for their threatened subspecies.