• Scientific Name : Panthera leo
  • IUCN Status : Vulnerable
  • The lion  is a large cat of the genus Panthera native to Africa and India.
  • It has a muscular, broad-chested body, short, rounded head, round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail.
  • It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a prominent mane.
  • The lion is a muscular, broad-chested cat with a short, rounded head, a reduced neck and round ears.
  • A new-born lion has dark spots, which fade as the cub reaches adulthood, although faint spots often may still be seen on the legs and underparts.
  • African lions live in scattered populations across sub-Saharan Africa. The lion prefers grassy plains and savannahs, scrub bordering rivers and open woodlands with bushes.
  • It rarely enters closed forests.
  • Lions spend much of their time resting; they are inactive for about twenty hours per day.
  • Although lions can be active at any time, their activity generally peaks after dusk with a period of socialising, grooming and defecating.
  • Intermittent bursts of activity continue until dawn, when hunting most often takes place.
  • They spend an average of two hours a day walking and fifty minutes eating.
  • The lion is the most social of all wild felid species, living in groups of related individuals with their offspring.
  • The lion is a generalist hyper carnivore and is considered to be both an apex and keystone predator due to its wide prey spectrum.
  • Although adult lions have no natural predators, evidence suggests most die violently from attacks by humans or other lions.