They’re born cute and cuddly and grow up into apex predators that rule savannas. Let’s dig into five facts about lion cubs ...

Cute footage (click to play above) shows Aysa the lioness with her beautiful newborn lion cubs. Aysa and her war traumatised first set of cubs, Emi, Santa and Teddi now two, arrived at the park ...

But she isn’t the first baby animal to cause visitors ... The Oregon Zoo has had a good number of lion cubs over the years. But look at these cute pals, born in 2014.