By: Nate clay
Physical Traits
• Lions have strong teeth that help them chew almost ¼ of a deer in 1 bite.
• They have fast feet for their weight to hunt fast animals.
• Their roar can be heard from five miles away.
• Their manes protect the throat during battles with other lions.
Behavior Adaptations
• Lions survives by living in a pack, surrounding its’ prey for no escape, and most importantly the front line of defense to defend their prides territory .
Habitat
They live in plain dry grass in Africa,
India, and zoos in many countries.
Their climate is truly unfamiliar with rain, since it is always hot but cool at night.
A Lion’s Diet
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The lion is a carnivore…(it only eats meat)
So it eats bunnies,deer,antelope,crocidiles,buffalo, rhinos,hippos,giraffes,and zebras.
It’s a predator…(it eats prey)… but it is the tertiary consumer in it’s food chain…(it receives all the energy in the food web by eating another consumer). Nothing eats it.
Learned behaviors
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The lion learns to:
Hunt specific animals due to skill.
Climb trees to kill climbing animals.
Stick together at all times. More lions more food for their dinner and provides safety.
It learns to have a vicious roar used for finding others and scaring off other lions.
Inherited traits
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Their feet perfect for chasing fast animals such as zebras.
They have fur for protecting them thru the cool nights.
Their manes are helpful telling males from the females.
Their eyes are perfect for the dark while their prey’s is not.
Interesting Facts
• The largest lion pride found have over 40 lions!
• The females hunt for the pride but males hunt for themselves.
• Cubs can nurse from other females as well as it’s mother.
• 70% of the time the male lions will leave after 2 to 4 years with the prides.
• When a new lion takes over the pride sometimes he will kill all the cubs and have offspring so all the cubs will have the same genes as him.
Food web
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