Up to 40 kg of meat can be consumed by an adult male at one meal. After making a kill, a lion may rest in the vicinity of the carcass for several days. A non-nomadic pride may consist of 15 animals. The basis of a pride is a group of related females and their young. Several adult males often move about together as a group.
Males living in a group allow females to do all the hunting.
Lions appear to behave asocially at a kill, with little tolerance being shown to subordinates and cubs. The lion has at least nine distinct vocalizations, including a series of grunts that apparently serve to maintain contact as a pride moves about. Lions proclaim their territory by roaring as well as by scent marking through urination and defecation, and by rubbing its head in a bush. Females are polyestrous and heat lasts about 4 days. Gestation period is 100-119 days, and litters contain one to six young.