African Lion
Panthera leo krugeri
Also Called: Transvaal lion
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African Lion
Mammal. Male lions are the only cats with tufted tails and manes. They can reach a length of 2.5 meters (8 feet) and a height of 1.2 meters (4 feet). Unlike most other cat species, lions are very social animals.
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Type: Mammal Diet: Carnivore Size: Head and body, 4.5 to 6.5 ft (1.4 to 2 m); Tail, 26.25 to 39.
The African Lion (Panthera leo) is well known to people around the world from movies and books. In person, it is an impressive beast to behold.
HABITAT:
The African lion inhabits grassy plains, savannahs, open woodlands and scrub country.
African lions are normally tawny colored. For centuries, rumors of the mysterious white lion circulated South Africa.
African Lion
Panthera leo
Range:
Southern Sahara to southern Africa, excluding Congo rain forest belt.
The African Lion is listed on appendix II in CITES and is protected in Namibia. Trophy hunting is permitted, but this is normally restricted to problem animals when they come in to conflict with people.
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African Lion
These large, highly social cats live in savannas, grasslands and scrubby bushlands. Lions are not "Kings of the Jungle," as they do not live in densely forested areas.
African Lion
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Vulnerable; CITES: Appendix ll.
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African Lion (Panthera leo)
Population: Est. 30,000 to 50,000. Status: Vulnerable Species.
Trends: Downward due to a declining prey base and killing by humans in defense of livestock herds.
African lions (Panthera leo) live in most of sub-Saharan Africa except in desert and rainforest habitats.
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Of all Africa's animals none are better known than the mighty "King of the Beasts" immortalised in many Hollywood movies and adventure hunting novels.
African lions live in a number of different habitats: grassy plains, open woodlands, semi-desert areas, even high mountains. They eat anything they can catch and kill, including antelope, zebra and buffalo.
Tawny colored: African lions (the predominant lion left) are usually a tawny color.
Inheritance of the white coat colour phenotype in African lions. In: Proceedings of a Symposium on Lions and Leopards as Game ranch Animals, Onderstepoort, pp. 92-95. Ed. J v Heerden.
Eloff, FC, 1984. Food ecology of the Kalahari lion. Koedoe (Suppl.
In the wild, the African lion is found in parts of eastern and southern Africa and is generally protected in reserves, although hunting by humans still occurs.
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A few people who owned cougars or large cats prior to 2000 are still permitted to own these animals.
Although the African lion is listed as vulnerable on the World Conservation Union's (IUCN's) Red List of Threatened Animals, and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums has organized a Species Survival Plan for African lions, ...
There are seven big cats: lions (most zoo lions are African lions, but some zoos keep the endangered Asiatic lion), tigers (the most common of the seven surviving subspecies is the Indian or Bengal tiger, the rarest are the Javan tiger, ...
Today however, they have been pushed into more isolated pockets of their once vast natural range with the remaining African Lion population now only found in countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Our female African lion pair, Ethel Louise and Samantha, were euthanized on February 24. The twin sisters were nearly 23 years old and have been together since birth.
There is already some evidence of African lions being poached for their bones.
Encouraging wildlife managers in the African lion’s range states to monitor lion populations in the coming years, developing in the process adapted methodologies of sampling and estimating numbers in representative lion population, ...
Nevertheless, the African lion numbered perhaps 200,000 individuals in 1991. They are generally protected even through some 150 humans have been mauled in the Gir National Park alone.
Jaguars are the third largest cat of the world, ranking behind the tiger and African lion. In spite of their large size and powerful build, however, jaguars (el tigre of the Mexicans) are shy and retiring.
Asiatic lions are slightly smaller than their African relatives. (The Asian and African lions are subspecies of Panthera leo). An average adult male weighs about 175 kg (385 lb.) and adult females about 115 kg (253 lb.) ...
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A full-sized South African lion, according to Selous, measures slightly less than ro ft. from nose to tip of tail, following the curves of the body. Sir Cornwallis Harris gives ro ft. 6 in., of which the tail occupies 3 ft.
"A molecular genetic analysis of kinship and cooperation in African lions". Nature 351: 562-65. doi:10.1038/351562a0.
^ Morjan C, Rieseberg L (2004).
 See also: Lion, Leopard, Tiger, Panther, Cheetah
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