The Dallas Zoo sent Disney footage of their month-old lion cub "for motion and behavior references when designing Simba" Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

If you think baby Simba in the remake of The Lion King is cute, wait until you see the Texas lion cub Disney looked to in order to bring him to life. Though the heir to the animal kingdom resides in ...

It reads like the plot of a Disney movie - three unlikely animal playmates overcoming their differences to forge an adorable friendship. But this is a real-life story, about a lion cub called Simba, a ...