Assignment

African Lions

Their history and origins

It is customary to say that the African lion is the king of the jungle, because it is a predator very strong, standing at the top of the chain feed the animals that live on dry land and because his mane looks like a king's crown! Most lions live in Africa, the African savannah. The female lion called lion, and is different from lion. The lion has a huge mane around the neck, which makes it very beautiful and majestic. His mane is multicolor: beige, white, brown and reddish black at the tips. Lionesses have no mane and are smaller than lions and are therefore much more quickly. The lionesses have by the short and light brown. The Lions have the slightly longer and darker.

Nearly all wild lions live in sub-Saharan Africa, but there is a small population of Asiatic lions in the “Gir Forest” in India. The Asian and African lions are subspecies of the same species.

At one point, young males leave the group to form his own pack, usurping a group headed by another male. Consummate hunting, the collective effort often degenerates to squabbling over the division of the dam, where the puppies are last place. The young lions do not participate in hunting until they are about a year old. If the opportunity arises, lions hunt alone, and snatch the prey to raw meat (Packer, 1991)

What they eat?

The lion may eat anything they can catch, but their diet consists mainly of animals weighing between 50 and 300 kg.10 the lion is able to prey on animals such as zebras, deer, wildebeest, impalas, antelopes, buffaloes and giraffes; ingesting up to twenty pounds of meat in a single day. They hunt at dusk and at night, and also feed on dead animals previously.

Their habitats

Preferentially inhabits savannas ...