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South Africa’s lion petting industry: we spent three years investigating and here’s what we found

By Stephanie-Emmy Klarmann, Research associate, University of Johannesburg
Alexandra Schnell, Research Fellow in Comparative Psychology, University of Cambridge
Angie Elwin, Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
Neil D’Cruze, Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University

A three-year study of 34 South African captive lion venues found poor welfare conditions, early separation of cubs from mothers and hours of handling by tourists.

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