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The lion

Global Distribution of Lions over the past two- thousand
years

Lions once ranged across the continent and into Syria,
Israel, Iraq, Pakistan and Iran
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Now, sadly, less than
20,000 lions are left
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• Main competitor is spotted hyena
• Prey consists of large mammals such as wildebeest,
zebra, buffalo etc
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Activity occurs
through the night hours in intervals until
dawn, where hunting takes place
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Weaknesses
•With relatively small heart and lungs, lions are
not fast runners nor do they have a lot of
stamina to keep up the pace
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•Male lions are always looking for a fight and try
to take control of a pride of an aging lion to have
a right to females
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The threat of global warming
• Lions usually survive diseases such as
outbreaks of CDV/ infestation of a tick-borne
blood parasite called Bohesia, which naturally
occur in isolation
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• Lions are coming into increasingly close contact
with humans as there habitat is being converted
for human use, with livestock replacing their
natural prey
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• Lions are listed vulnerable on the list of
threatened and endangered species
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Study has shed some light on the
effects of global warming
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A darker
and bigger mane gets a lot hotter than a smaller and paler
mane
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