Lion cubs under mother’s watchful eye — PHOTOS
Six-year-old Pebbels, center, looks up as she appears to notice the camera while tending to her cubs in a den box at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Reflections of a fence on a glass partition can be seen. Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Six-year-old Pebbels, center, looks up while tending to her cubs in a den box at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Six-year-old Pebbels, left, watches over a cub in a den box at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
African lion cubs lounge in a den box at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Reflections of a fence on a glass partition can be seen. Six-year-old Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
African lion cubs lounge in a den box at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Reflections of a fence on a glass partition can be seen. Six-year-old Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Six-year-old Pebbels, bathes her cubs in a den box at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Reflections of a fence on a glass partitioncan be seen. Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
All five African lion cubs lay near their mother in a den box at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Reflections of a fence on a glass partition can be seen. Six-year-old Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Lion Habitat Ranch owner Keith Evans feeds 6-year-old Pebbels a meal of raw horse meat and raw chicken at the habitat Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Pebbels gave birth to six cubs on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Swifty, a male African lion, walks in his den at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Swifty fathered six cubs that were born on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Swifty, a male African lion, walks in his den at Lion Habitat Ranch Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Henderson. Swifty fathered six cubs that were born on April 1. The five surviving cubs are doing well, and habitat owner Keith Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Five lion cubs are growing up at the Lion Habitat Ranch in Henderson, but mom isn’t making any play dates just yet.
Keith Evans, owner of the 6.2-acre ranch, says the 6-year-old mother, named Pebbels, is still keeping the cubs close about three weeks after they were born. Six cubs were born on April 1, but one did not survive.
Evans has posted photos and video of the cubs on the ranch’s Facebook page.
The five cubs are doing well, and Evans says that one or two cubs may venture out from the den box this week.
