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African Lions ( 10 fake facts)

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 * Male Lions are always protecting pride, or family unit, his territory that covers about 100 square miles. **** Only cats that live in groups which are called prides made up of 3 males, a dozen females and their young. **** Females leave stay in birth pride while males become the pride leaders and fight off other challengers. **** Males only have manes that thing that encircles their hair. ****  Males mark territory with Urine with sweat  **** , a roar that warns off intruders, or just stare at them till they leave.  **** Females are the pride’s primary hunters some of them are really fast which pays off. **** Young lions do not help hunt until they are about a year old until then they watch and learn. **** Lions hunt alone if they have the chance, they would even still food from wild dogs, or other lions. **** This lion is very high in the food chain which means it has no other predators. **** Lion cubs can’t fall prey to other lions or other predators because they're protected by their mother. **** Males weight between 330-550 lbs, 8 to 10 feet long. **** females weight between 260-400 lbs. **** Lions are carnivores and stalk their prey which means they lower their back and hide in the tall grass then at the right moment boom they strike. **** Lions like semi-deserts, Savannas, and grassy plains. **** Lions have very good eyesight in the night their eyes may even grow green, during pitch black nights they might kill with no trace. **

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** Lions like to pick that give them a challenge so fast,strong prey. ** ** Lions use long bodies to run a burst of 50 miles per hour 15 miles per hou ** ** r. **  ** Lions will trap prey near cliff or corner them at a wall to ensure they won’t escape. **** In groups lions will lure the prey right into another lion so once it runs away from one boom it runs into another. **** Once a prey is down the prey’s herd fights and tries to save it. A lion's ****  Jaws can bite down at 600 lbs per inch that's 6x what a human can do 435 lbs per inch that’s 8x what a human can do. **** The male lion, lioness, and cub all eat together all get fare share. **** To avoid the other lions,lions do most of their hunting at night. **** When there is low life stock lioness will be eaten by lions. **** Prides are really close with little fighting even between males. **** Lions are being hunted and sent to zoo’s now there are only less than 20,000 lions left in the wild. **
 * [] **** When lion are killing prey they hold on to neck in hope of cutting important vain. **** Lions forced out of their pride typically die of starvation or from attacks from other prides. **** If male lions were to hunt their bulky body and main would give them away before they have time to strike. **** Large pads on bottom of their paws allow them to track prey very silently. **** Lions can watch prey for up to 2 weeks just to study the other animals patterns. **