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 ...

Once again, we follow Simba on his journey from reckless young cub to worthy ruler of Pride Rock. Though he tries to follow in the pawprints of his father Mufasa, his uncle, Scar, has other plans.

The film franchise mainly revolves about a pride of lions who oversee a large swath of African savanna as their «kingdom» known as the Pride Lands, with their leader Simba watching over it ...