Click on photo to get to the next one Playful young lion cubs must be taught to hunt and kill. Here, two females teach a cub to eat while a third licks her young. All the females in a lion pride are related, and all take responsibility for nursing and rearing the cubs. Only males under three years old remain with the pride, and are then driven out. One or two dominant males remain in the vicinity for about 6 years, patrolling their marked territory, protecting the pride and mating with all the females.
Lions sleep about twenty hours per day, and usually hunt at night.
The females do most of the hunting, since the large mane of the male lion is too visible to prey. For more about African lions, please visit our Wild African Lions page. Bella Online AOL HippoWorld ConnectingStudents AnimalHead.