Indian state’s grip on rare lions may be a little too tight

In this March 25 photo, a lioness licks her cub at the Gir Sanctuary in the western Indian state of Gujarat, India.

GIR SANCTUARY, India (AP) — A peacock shrieks. A monkey scrambles higher into the fire-colored canopy of a kesudo tree. And an Asiatic lion — one of the last few hundred in the wild — pads across the dusty earth of a west Indian sanctuary that is its only refuge from the modern ...

Published: 07/09/2012