Photo: Lion Cubs Kidnapped; Parents Kill People in Revenge?

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Lion cubs nestle together in Africa.

In June 2006 news reports said that Somalian militiamen had kidnapped three such cubs near the Kenya-Somalia border and that the cub's parents and relatives went village to village searching for the young cats, killing people along the way. The kidnapping story is plausible, some wildlife experts say, but the tale of the lion search-and-rescue team sounds unlikely.

Photograph by Beverly Joubert/National Geographic/Getty Images

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