{"id":864598,"date":"2026-08-22T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864598\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:20:09","slug":"from-cub-to-king-inside-national-geographics-lion-series-4-years-in-the-making-news24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864598\/","title":{"rendered":"From cub to king: Inside National Geographic\u2019s \u2018Lion\u2019 series, 4 years in the making &#8211; News24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi3wFBVV95cUxQZzJ1Y2d4VzVpYVJzZVVoWHZkLWFVUU12VlpkWmJram9IRW1jcy1ZYVV0M2Z5aG9idmJaeDdQcFYzVnh3YThJcXQ5Y0hUNUlXVHRTd1N6OUd2S3hmNTg2OGVHXzA3dW1oTk1YZDF0dEFoYVIyTU01U2VmWEdqeTJpNlpWZkxCTndYQzdjTHNjWmtWUUlqRWF6ZDFCQVlSZmh0emhGRFZVWDM3ZjBzQi10TlI1Zi1MMEJyTzRfNW1GRzNhVkx1NDBjOWhoQnlxUmFYbzRzYklPYURwTzZ4UWFr?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From cub to king: Inside National Geographic\u2019s \u2018Lion\u2019 series, 4 years in the making<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;News24<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxOQl9jZkNJaTBkN3BZZC11RTdSYUFLajNBNzVST2RMS083c0xreVFseDN3enNRSFJZYWJrSkdxcnlCTWxaUUVXMUZiZlBjUjZOYk9KMlBuVmxlbHR0ZWpoeGVyRTlQdlRTd0hTR055ZjhCWkVYbHpVaGJxZXNuWWQ5bW9seEwyRGs2aFlKNEZldEw4Zw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">After The Lion King , Jon Favreau Wanted to Film the Real Thing<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;National Geographic<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxPUUZfQmU3ZW1HVUZ5U3BNRHlzWmdyS0dqNzdSNnkwY3BOTDdPbktEY0pCZUtpOWExLTd5cy16eWZKaVZpT09rZVlpTHNRVU5qNnJveEZQNTUtLWJZQ0NrMjhLMVQtMmNGTTQ3dmZKejg0UlZDbW5famcwelhsSDZlLVJOWFdpaFp1MEEzWFluNWI5UkdURC1EV2pfM00?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A real-life Lion King: \u2018It\u2019s the holy grail of natural history film-making\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifkFVX3lxTFBvakhQMWlHbTNQajVSMUVNTEpKd2RoMlQ0aEpiSGJpZlo0X1FvQS1jN1U5ODM1VEVNM0dQS25SeW9MMl82M3pWZGxFcnFsWE5MTkF3QWY2eTBMamZhZWVFdVBhUHVETlFkUGRvZHdrWFQ0NkptcmllczRvN0pzZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A new documentary shows what growing up lion is really like<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Science News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihgFBVV95cUxNVnZyaWZFOXA1LUQ0TDBmeGRmR0hWRl91LWtpOEVhc2FUbEctVE45aUJmSWpDbWZfcmxkYmQyeUU2ZjhJb3B0SUpOZVFJMnA1cmk4aHdwTlZYa2JFWUxGOTNrdjR4dDNwRlFyT2xlcHVDLTQ0ak9CS1c2Uk1EQ0pfTHF2OVJHUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hard Reign of Africa\u2019s Last Lions<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;National Geographic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From cub to king: Inside National Geographic\u2019s \u2018Lion\u2019 series, 4 years in the making&nbsp;&nbsp;News24After The Lion King ,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,20232,128,163852,338],"class_list":["post-864598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lion","tag-science","tag-the-lion-king","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}