A lion knows never to play poker with a leopard, they're all cheetahs. These catty kings of the Savanna are punny as anything and just chomping at the bit to flow across your screen. So before you flip on Animal Planet, check out some of the best hilarious lion jokes and memes around.
At the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation in Mexico City, a lion named Miki turned on the charm and showed us all the proper way to greet a lady. Miki was the proper gentlemen, approaching the chocolate lab known as Camila, picking up her paw and giving it a gentle kiss. However, when he decided to do so twice, Camila decided that was quite enough and hightails it out of there. Sorry, Miki! Next time just stick to greeting Camila once.
Tourists in Crimea's Taigan Safari Park were in for a surprise when Filya the lion decided to give them a very personal hello.
Here are some impressive fun facts to memorize and use as a way of breaking that awkward silence at the dinner table. And what better animal to talk about than the king of them all? Yes, we are talking about lions. Who doesn't like lions? They are majestic, powerful, cute and they have nice manes. And we all secretly want a pet lion to protect us, or a friend like Aslan.
Here's some majestic AF lions that don't include any fun facts, just cool pics of the mighty big cats, and here's some lion memes that also contain no fun facts like the ones on this list.
You may have heard this or seen this story once or twice. But, each time brings new meaning to what animals are. They are just like us. In their own habitat and sometimes, just like us... they need help.
Great memes of lions, the mighty big cats that don't realize their size.
And when you're done chewing on these, try some lion fun facts or majestic lion pics to help quench that thirst for all things lion.
Tippi Hedren, perhaps most famous for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, is an actress of formidable gifts. But her role as an animal-rights activist and conservationist might well be Hedren's most lasting legacy. For decades, her Roar Foundation and the animal sanctuary, Shambala Preserve, in California have advocated for big (and not so big) cats—from lions and leopards to bobcats and servals—and she's been honored with a host of humanitarian and conservation awards through the decades.
In 1971, LIFE photographer Michael Rougier spent time with Hedren; her teenage daughter, Melanie Griffith, her then-husband, the agent and movie producer, Noel Marshall; and others at their home in California. Also in attendance: Neil, a 400-pound mature lion, who occasionally slept in the same bed as Griffith and, as these pictures attest, had the run of the house, from the kitchen to the living room to the swimming pool.
Decades and several attacks later -- one lion clawed daughter Melanie Griffith in the face during the production of the 1981 film Roar and required that Griffith undergo surgery -- Hedren admitted that having a lion live in her home alongside her children was "stupid beyond belief."
A proud father meets his cubs at the Oregon Zoo's Predators of the Serengeti Habitat.
