The animators of Disney’s The Lion King traveled to a park with dramatic landscapes in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley to get a feel for, as Mufasa puts it, the great circle of life. When visitors ...

Disney has shown some truly dark moments, but nothing compares to this grisly Lion King fan theory that the House of Mouse confirms is totally true.

While “The Lion King” portrays hyenas as abundant menaces, the reality for most hyena species is concerning. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists brown hyenas as Near ...

Credit: Disney. Which poses the big question: why is Animal Kingdom yet to build an entire land dedicated to The Lion King? (And, no, Rafiki’s Planet Watch doesn’t count).