It’s got everyone’s favorite farting warthog, graceful giraffes, lumbering elephants and a whole cast of realistic-looking animal characters. And they certainly don’t try to return home once they’ve left the lion pride. Disney took a lot of creative license when it comes to lion behavior and family dynamics, zoologists and lion researchers say. “It’s always a matriarch who actually leads a lion pride ,” said Craig Saffoe, the curator of great cats at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington. And the movie would have been more accurate if it were called “The Lion Queen.”

Source: New York Times July 21, 2019 15:45 UTC