Do black lions exist?

What would you do if you suddenly ran into the king of beasts on a dark road in Ethiopia? Scream? Run? Faint? Not Çağan Şekercioğlu. Instead, he took a deep breath and kept his camera rolling from inside his vehicle, capturing a rare video of an Ethiopian lion. (See 15 intimate portraits of lions.). read more

Beautiful as a black lion may appear to be, such a creature doesn't actually exist. The picture that went viral is an admitted hoax, created by manipulating the color palette of an image of a white lion (which does exist) photographed at the Cango Wildlife Ranch in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. read more

White lions exist, but they are virtually extinct. George Adamson’s book “My Pride and Joy” reported an almost entirely black lion spotted in Tanzania in 1987, but no real pictures of this animal seem to exist. read more