A huge animal power in the range of the African lion weighs 450-550 pounds for an adult man in good health, while women generally in the range from 300 to 350 pounds. The length is between 6-8 meters to 55 meters for men and five women, with the exception of a nearly three-foot tail. However, significantly more individuals were captured. The largest wild lion was always weighed about 700 pounds. InA copy of imprisonment has been documented well over 800 pounds. The shoulder height is about four meters for men and three and a half feet for females.
The lion's skin is yellow-brown in color and plain. The hair is short and a bit 'rude. Males are characterized by great mane, head, neck and abdomen and back. The mane is initially pale in color and nuances of golden yellow through to black as the Lion of age. A full mane of black means a lion maturepotential good education is often preferred by lionesses and a partner.
In some parts of Africa, including Senegal and especially in Tsavo, Kenya, are included maneless male lion, probably for adaptation to thorny habitats of these regions. Overall, it is built muscle for both sexes. Lionesses are more athletic because they surpass them in the hunt, whose main task of pride. Male lions are cumbersome because the additional weight and strength against intruders, and candefend the pride's territory.
The weapons are sharp claws and close to three-inch canines. Jaws are powerful and the skull is larger than any other cat species. The eyes are placed in front of more land as predators rather than on the side as in the case of the spoils. The field of view that is so important for the prey, where it is hunters, arriving before their very eyes. The field is, for better depth perception and binocular vision in Leuven, which is threatened with relatively narrowset eyes, they fall prey to assess distance to support him. Tail has a tuft of hair that covers the spine at the tip of the tail. The abdominal skin is loose and the shields of the internal organs of hunted ungulates in a viscous shoot to kill.
Cats African Lions Social, and the tip keystone predators. They live and hunt together, making the chances of success and survival for themselves and their young during the season lasts. Lionesses have most of the hunt by putting a sort oforganized the event for the hunt. Each lioness takes a special role in this form of group hunting. In general, weak and old are selected and isolated from the herd. Then one or two lionesses sit by breaking cover and the position of prey. Remove the animals panic and usually end up in the jaws of a lioness waiting in their flight. It is a suffocating hold by biting the neck of small prey or mouth and nose for the big game.
Unlike previous hypotheses,It is estimated that the male lion up to 50 to 60 per cent of all the degradation of hunting, particularly useful in larger prey like buffalo. Other animals are made of a wide range depending on the type and frequency of prey in a particular area. These include eland, gemsbok, hartebeest, impala, kudu, warthog, wildebeest and zebras. Sometimes even the young giraffes and rhinos, hippos and elephants were killed. Opportunistic predators, however, hunting and eating lionsall in need, even carrion. Some lions in Botswana have been killed by elephants shot in a period of severe drought. The calves were taken regularly and on several occasions were adults under cover of darkness.
African lions fail at the top of the food chain in the African savannah, not the extermination of competition, when opportunity offers. Conflict with spotted hyenas are common, often in a position to intimidate, and young lions because of their greater numbers, but sufferstrong when it comes into contact with men. Adult male lions were hunting visualization tools rather to hyenas wild behavior on several occasions, actively and hyenas kill adult and young. Sometimes, the lions were included cleaning out hyena kills. Interspecies conflict with other big cats, and also occurs African lions often kill leopards and cheetahs and their cubs, perhaps to avoid competition.
A number of sub-species of lions are recognized by theirDistribution area in Africa.
Panthera Leo Zande (North East Congo lion) - North-East of Congo
Panthera Leo Bleyenberghi (Southwest African lion or Katanga) - South-West Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Katanga (Zaire), Zambia and Zimbabwe
Panthera Leo Kruger (south-east African lion or the Transvaal) - Transvaal region of South-East Africa, including Kruger National Park
Panthera Leo Nubica (East African Lion or Massai) - East Africa Ethiopia and KenyaTanzania and Mozambique
Panthera leo senegalensis (West African lion) - West Africa from Senegal to Nigeria
Territorial cats, Lions pride of Africans live on the surface up to ten square miles, depending on the strength of a lion and prey in a particular region. The men regularly patrol the territory, marking with urine and scent from their paws. Yell at dusk and dawn them to establish their presence and to warn intruders. The roar is stronger among cats and can be hearda distance of 5 miles. A pride consists of 1-4 males and up to a dozen young women and girls. Women are usually related to each other and generally living in a pride for the entire duration of their lives, while young adults have come from, when they are two or three years. These young people follow a nomadic lifestyle, coalitions with other single men and hunt and survive on their own. When there are four 56 years old, arethe situation is a pride of place.
In addition to residents in the area of an established male pride and try to take over the area and move lionesses. This often leads to a grueling fight, and sometimes deadly. If the resident male losers who sneak and kill the nomads are ready for any single parent from the previous male. This leads the female in estrus. The new males kill or expel the young males. The acquisition is often brutal and sometimes takesMonths.
After the lions were finally settled, the new men have only a period of 2-3 years on average for boys of his own success that can reach adulthood and propagate their genetic line, before they produce internally displaced persons as well. Women come into estrus throughout the year and produce a litter of 2-3 cubs after a gestation period lasts three to four months. The cubs learn to hunt for a year and are completely independent of two years. Maturity is reached4 years for women and five men. Lifespan is between 12 and 15 years in the wild and 25 in captivity.
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