Lion brothers brawl for attention of females at Florida zoo

MIAMI, July 18 (UPI) -- A Florida zoo shared a slideshow of the confrontations between two lion brothers competing for dominance in their enclosure.

Zoo Miami said the 8-year-old lion brothers, Jabare and Kwame, were introduced to a pair of females for the first time in more than a year, causing the males to battle for supremacy.

The lions sparred several times before Jabare was established as the dominant male and peace was restored.

"Tempers have calmed, and they now appear to accept each other's presence," a post on the zoo's official Facebook page said. "This is great news because it allows Zoo Miami to be one of less than a handful of zoos in the country to successfully exhibit a coalition of adult males with females on a single exhibit."