1. Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them.

2. When lion cubs are young, the mother stays with them while the father hunts for food.

3. Lion cubs too play games that help them master the skills that will be essential for their success in later life.

4. Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis.

5. A small lion cub yawns while resting with its pride in Savuti, Botswana.

6. A young lion cub climbs on a fallen tree limb in Botswana. Scientists connect the drastic decreases in lion numbers in many cases to burgeoning human populations.

7. A young lion cub tries to swim in the moat surrounding the lion habitat at the National Zoo.

8. A lion named Stefani plays with her one-month-old lion cub in their enclosure at Sofia Zoo in Sofia, Bulgaria.

9. I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest - clumsily.

10. I remember when she died and how I crawled into her hospital bed, and just laid next to her. I felt like the lion cub that had lost its mother.

11. The lioness on the east side has its front left paw on a lion cub, indicating a prosperously growing family and the never-ending secession of the imperial lineage.

12. The newest newborn at the Berlin Zoo,[ ] this California sea lion cub named Diego.

13. "I once watched a young killer whale playing with a stick for a long time, and earlier this year I watched a lion cub playing with a stick in Ngorongoro Crater," Kahlenberg said.

14. Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.

15. Pumbaa and Timon carry Simba to a shady place, and wait until the lion cub comes to.

16. Japanese zoos are celebrating the arrival of a newborn lion and some cheetah cubs, the seven-week-old lion cub is rare and is being treated like the prince of the zoo.