Galadedrid, you have SO come to the right place! We have a member here known as Timbalionguy, who in real life works at a zoo, and with lions, no less. He can tell you practically anything there is to know about the big cats. Not only that, but he has a story in progress that centers on big cats. If you go to the forum section called "The Professor's Writing Club," you'll find there a story called "The Lion's Share;" in it, Timbalionguy is imagining what life was like for the first generations of Narnia's feline-type Talking Beasts.
