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Unique Facts About Lions That Are Rarely Known
#1. Lions don't drink every day but every day they need to eat.
Lions can survive up to four days
without water, but if water is available they will drink it.
Lions have to eat every day. An adult female lion needs about 11 pounds of
meat per day, while an adult male lion needs 16 pounds or more of meat per day.
#2. Lions are social animals.
The most sociable of all the large cats are lions. They live in prides which are
often made up of related females and their pups.
There are 10 to 15 lions form a distinctive pride, including several
adult females, cubs and up to four males. The size of some prided lions can reach
40 members.
#3. Most hunting is performed by female
lions or lionesses. The main hunter of the pride is the
female lion, they are smaller and more agile than the male lion and their
hunting animals in the group. All the lions in the pride there share the food
after they're successful from hunting. However there is a pecking order with
the adult male lion feeding first then the lioness and then the cubs. Competing
pride and other predators are shunned by the male lion who defends his pride and
territory or which can cover up to 100 square miles.
Female lion in certain prides are responsible for 85 to 90 of hunting.
#4. Lions can communicate in different ways.
Lions use a variety of sounds to communicate including roars, growls,
groans and purrs. Scent markers and visual indications
such as main shadows are also they're used.
They also rub their heads against each other's to unify and distribute the
smell of family. A lion's roar can be heard up to five kilometers away.
This is a warning to other predators as well as a way to attract mates and guard
their area from competing males.
#5. The lion can swim very well.
The animal planet page says that sometimes lions do have to swim for
example the lions that live around the akavango delta in botswana this area is
often flooded by deep water.
#6. The lion is a very lazy animal.
A male lion can sleep up to 18 hours every day.
In fact lionesses are busier because they have to hunt and take care of their
cubs, while sleeping for 15 to 18 hours a day. If they are full of food lions can
sleep for a full 24 hours.
#7. More than half of a lion's food is carrion
#8. The lion has extraordinary hearing.
They have a good sense of sight to help them see in the dark. However it turns
out that not only that their hearing is no less amazing.
Lions can hear prey from one mile or 1.6 kilometers away.
In addition, their ears can be moved making it easier to find the source of
the sounds.
#9. The female lion have a taste for their partner's hair.
The new scientist page says that female lions usually prefer male lions with
long and black hairs. In addition the long black mane actually makes male
lions appear more intimidating to other males.
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