Amazing facts about African lions

Amazing facts about African lions 

 

 

1 – Lions are the only cats that live in groups called prides, prides are family units include up to : 3 males, 12 females and their young.

2- Young male lions eventually leave their prides and establish their own prides by taking over another pride headed by another male.

3- Female lions stay in their prides as they age.

4- Only male lions have manes, the long hair that encircles their heads, males defend the pride's territory and mark it with their urine.

5- Female lions are the pride's primary hunters.

They often work together to hunt.

6- The lions prey upon grassland's animals such as : zebras, wildebeest, and other large animals, many of these animals are faster than lions so the lions often work together to hunt them. 

7- After the hunt, the lions normally start to squabbling over the sharing of the kill, young lions do not help with hunt until they are about a year old.

8- Lions will hunt alone if they have the opportunity, they also steal kills from hyenas and wild dogs.

9- Lions roamed most of Africa and parts of Asia and Europe, today they are only found in parts of Africa.

10- Very small population of Asian lions survives in India.