The lions' roar is distinct to each individual. It is used for territorial marking and warning off other lions in separate prides (or lone individuals). This however, is usually carried out by competing males. Other male lions will challenge the alpha of the pride to a fight in order to take their spot of dominance if they win. Lions actually have prides in order to strengthen their species throughout the generations (Boothalingam 2018).
Lions are not as built for extreme speed as cheetahs are, but hunt in packs. This is unusual in cats. The females usually do the hunting for the pride. However the males can sometimes help if needed, to take down large animals. After lions have brought down a prey, they suffocate it by biting the front of its face to prevent it breathing. Lions prey are zebra and deer. Lions also have long retractable claws which act like grappling hooks, to keep hold of the prey.
Even though a lion is good at killing prey for food, they are not among the most dangerous animals for humans.
A lioness is ready to have young when she is 2–3 years old. Young lions are called cubs. Cubs are born after 3 1/2 months. The cubs are born blind; their eyes do not open until they are about a week old, and cannot see well until they are about two weeks old. Lions do not have a den (home) where they would live for a long time. The lioness conceals the cubs in thick bush, gullies, or rocky outcrops. If the hiding place has been seen by other predators, then the lioness will move the cubs to a new hiding place. The cubs will be introduced to the pride at about 6 weeks old. The cubs are very vulnerable when the lioness goes out to hunt and needs to leave the cubs behind. Also, when a new male takes over a pride from another male, he usually kills all of the cubs. The cubs' mothers will then mate with the new pride male, which means that the first batch of new cubs will be his offspring. A litter of 2-6 cubs are born. Usually, only 1-2 cubs survive until introduced to the pride, at which point they are protected by the whole pride.
In zoos, lions have been known to breed with tigers. If the parents are a male lion and a female tiger, the offspring is called a liger. If the parents are a male tiger and a female lion, the offspring is called a tigon.
Lions appear in heraldry more often than any other animal. They traditionally symbolise courage, valour and royalty.
Galatasaray S.K.
Galatasaray is a sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. They started in 1905.
In 2000, they became the first Turkish club to win both the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup in the same year.
The team's colors are red and yellow. Turkish people also call it "Cim Bom". Their mascot is a lion. The Turk Telecom Stadium is their stadium, and is also known as Aslantepe; Lion Hill. It's an all-seater stadium. It can hold 52,652 people.
Galatasaray is one of the "big five" clubs in Turkey. The other clubs are Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş, Trabzonspor and Bursaspor. They have won the Spor Toto Super League 22 times and Ziraat Turkish Cup 18 times. As of January 2016, the Chairman is Mustafa Cengiz, and the coach is Fatih Terim.
B
B is the second letter in the English alphabet. Use a capital B at the start of a sentence if you are trying to communicate. B comes after A. B has a capital and lowercase kind, like every letter in the alphabet.
C
C is the third (3rd) letter in the English alphabet and ISO basic latin alphabet.
D
D is the fourth (number 4) letter in the alphabet.
E
E is the fifth (number 5) letter in the English alphabet.
In English it has two main sounds when it is spoken. Usually it is a short E (ĕ), but sometimes it is a long E (ē).
One more thing in English is the so-called magic E. That is when a silent e at the end of a word makes the previous e long. Example: morpheme, which is pronounced as morphēm.
The variants of E include (but may not be limited to)
capital E
lower-case e
é È è Ê ê Ë
É ë Ě ě Ē ē
Ĕ ĕ Ė ė Ę ę
"None" of these variants is used in English, except occasionally É/é for some French words.
These meanings are for E/e as a separate letter.
F
F is the sixth letter in the English alphabet.
G
G is the 7th (number 7) letter in the English alphabet (or Latin alphabet).u
The letter G was created in the third century BC by Spurius Carvilius Ruga. At the time, the letter C sounded like the "c" in "cat" and the "g" in "girl". To make the difference more clear, Ruga created the letter G.
H
H () is the eighth (number 8) letter in the English alphabet.
I
I is the ninth (9) letter in the English alphabet.
In English, I is a pronoun which means "me".
In Turkish, the letter I has two kinds, one with a dot (İ, i) and one without (I, ı).
J
J is the tenth (number 10) letter in the English alphabet. It comes before the letter K and after the letter I. The letter was not used in the Roman civilization until 16th Century.
K
K is the eleventh (number 11) letter in the English alphabet.
K or kappa is the tenth (number 10) letter in the Greek alphabet
L
L is the twelfth (number 12) letter in the English alphabet.
M
M is the 13th letter in the English alphabet.
N
N is the fourteenth (number 14) letter in the English alphabet.
O
O is the fifteenth (number 15) letter in the English alphabet and it has a shape of a circle.
P
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P is the sixteenth (number 16) letter in the English alphabet.
Q
Q is the seventeenth (number 17) letter in the English alphabet.
Some people say that the letter Q is not needed, because the sound it makes can be made with "K" and "W" instead. The same sort of things are said about the letters "X" and "C".
Below are some ancient ways of writing "Q":
R
R is the eighteenth (number 18) letter in the English alphabet.
S
S is the nineteenth (number 19) letter in the English alphabet.
T
T is the twentieth (number 20) letter in the English alphabet.
U
U (u) is the twenty-first (21) letter in the English alphabet (it is also used as a short form for 'you').
V
V is the twenty-second (number 22) letter in the English alphabet.
W
W is the twenty-third (number 23) letter in the Latin alphabet. It is sometimes considered a vowel. In words like "away, what, write and women," the W is a consonant. In words like "draw", "few", and "low," the W is a vowel
X
X is the twenty-fourth (number 24) letter in the English alphabet. It sometimes makes a sound like "ks" (for example: "exit", "next", "fox"), or if it is at the beginning of a word, it makes a sound like "zzz" (for example: "xylophone").
Y
Y is the twenty-fifth (number 25) letter in the English alphabet. It is sometimes considered a vowel. In words like "year", "yell", and "yes", the Y is a consonant. In words like "cry", "fly", and "sky", the Y is considered a vowel.
"Y" has appeared as the Semitic letter "waw". This was the first time it appeared in an alphabet. F, U, V, and W also come from the Semitic alphabet. The Greek and Latin alphabets used the Phoenician form of this early alphabet. There are similarities to the old English letter yogh (Ȝȝ). The table shows where the letter "y" came from.
Z
Z is the twenty-sixth (number 26) and last letter in the English alphabet. The small letter, z, is used as a lowercase consonant. Z is not used much. It is the most rarely used letter in the English language. The same letter of the Greek alphabet is named zeta.
The letter is said as either zed or zee. The first way of saying it comes from the Greek "zeta". In American English, its name is zee , because it comes from a late 17th century English speech.
The name of the Semitic symbol was "zayin" and was the seventh letter. It might have meant "weapon". It could have helped form English and French's "z".
The Greek form of Z was a close copy of the Phoenician symbol I. It stayed like this for a long time. The Greeks called it zeta, a new name made from the Greek letters "eta" (η) and "theta" (θ).
In Etruscan, "Z" may have been .