What is the lion?
Leo (Panthera Leo) is the second largest big cat, smaller than a tiger. In the wild, an adult man can weigh up to £ 500 and lives 10-14 years. The North American mountain lion is a completely separate species and not a real lion.
There are eight recognized subspecies of the lion, two of which are extinct in the wild and one of them, Asian, is considered critically endangered. There are no more than 350 animals of this variety in the wild. Four African species are significantly more successful and estimates of their population ranges from 16,500 to 47,000 animals. Although these figures seem large, experts suggest that the population has fallen by almost 50%over the past two decades, led by the International Union for maintaining nature and natural resources to be prone to extinction.
Lions live in two types of social group: resident and nomadic. There are lions in the population of the population in the aposes consisting of several adult women and their young and one or two adult men. Nomadic lions tend to live saor in pairs and travel to a much wider area without any specific domestic reach. The male Lion can switch between resident and nomadic life, but lions with women's inhabitants have a strict hierarchy that generally does not admit a nomadic woman into pride.
The diet of adult lions consists solely of meat. Since women are faster and more agile than men, the lioness pride cooperates on hunting the whole group. A man will never share his own killing, but the lioness allow men to join the feed after women and young ate their filler.
Pride women synchronize their reproductive cycles, so when the chicks are born, all women can raise and nursing them. Cubs Nurse for six to seven months before weaning. Experts suggest that competition for rare rare leads to a high degree of pups; In the wild, up to 80% of the pups die before reaching maturity. Other possibleThe reason for the high mortality is the result of the behavior of the breeding of the lion. If a new man takes over pride, he kills all the chicks and ensures that women become fertile.
The lion is often called the "King of the Jungle" and prominently figures in many legends. In Greece, the fight against Nemean Lion was one of Hercules' works and after his death the lion was put on the sky as a constellation Leo. The Egyptians worshiped this constellation because its annual increase in the sky coincided with the annual climb of the Nile. Egyptian and Greek mythology also mentions the sphinx, half leaf, half human monster to speak in puzzles and be wise and dangerous.
The 850 BCE was held in captivity. Alexander the Great was reportedly introduced with Tame Lions as a gift. In England, there are records of maintaining lions in Tower of London as part of Menageries since the 13th century. While they once held cemented and strongly silent cages, modern closure should imitate a natural wild habitat. Today you can see lions for yourself almost every zoo in the world becauseThey remain a very popular and fascinating animal.