Leon

LION
The lion is a carnivorous mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of the genus Panthera. The males, exceptionally large, weighing up to 250 kg, 3 making them the secondlargest living feline after the tiger. Wild lions live in Africa and Asia with a critically endangered population in northwest India, having disappeared from North Africa, Middle East and western Asia inhistoric times. Until the late Pleistocene, approximately 10 000 years, of large terrestrial mammals, the lion was the most widespread after humans. The distribution covered most of Africa, much ofEurasia from western Europe to India, and America, from the Yukon River to the Peru.4
If they survive the challenges of childhood, the lionesses living in a secure habitat such as Kruger National Park,can often reach the age of 12-14 years whereas lions seldom live more than eight years. 5 However, cases of lionesses who have lived twenty years in the wild. In captivity, both males and females canlive for more than twenty years. They live in savannas and grasslands, although they may enter shrubland and woodland. Lions are social animals, especially compared to other felids. A pride of lionsconsists of females who have a family relationship, their offspring and a small number of adult males. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, attacking mainly to large ungulates. The lion is apredator and password, although it may have a scavenger behavior if given the opportunity. While lions usually do not hunt humans selectively, some of them may become cannibals and seek human prey.The lion is a vulnerable species and their range in Africa over the last two decades has been a decline in populations, possibly irreversible, between 30% and 50%, 1 populations are not viableboundedoutside reserves and national parks. Although the cause of this decline is not well understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are currently the most important concerns. Lions have been taken...