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Lion
* All lions are animals.
* Live in groups called prides and find a place to live for the rest thir lives.
* Most lion tamarins use fingers.
* Most lions are classified as animals
  - big game animals
  - predatory animals
  - inside habitats
  - attack solitary animals
* Most lions avoid humans
  - predators
  - belong to families
  - carry genes
  - disperse from areas
* Most lions drink water daily if available, but can go four or five days without it
* Most lions eat animals
  - antelopes
  - flesh
  - food
  - gazelles
  - gnus
  - lambs
  - large mammals
  - meals
  - meat
  - organ meat
  - other animals
  - rabbits
  - sheep
  - small animals
  - zebras
  - enjoy meat
  - enter territory
  - face danger
  - feed in groups
  - find prey
  - follow gazelles
  - gain reproductive advantage
* Most lions has-part marrow
  - muscles
  - necks
  - noses
  - tongues
* Most lions have bloody noses
  - claws
  - coats
  - diets
  - extensive ranges
  - eyes
  - fur
  - kittens
  - large paws
  - life
  - limit ranges
  - mass
  - senses
  - sharp teeth
  - social life
  - tan coats
  - toes
  - worms and are known for their high cub mortality rate
  - hear sound
  - hide in grass
  - inhabit grassland
* Most lions kill animals
  - dangerous prey
  - deer
  - giraffes
* Most lions kill large animals
  - mountain sheep
  - learn behavior
  - live for years
* Most lions live in Africa
  - jungle
  - on savanna
  - pose threats
* Most lions possess bodies
  - heartbeats
  - strength
  - prefer meat
* Most lions prey on livestock
  - upon buffalo
  - protect territory
  - raise heads
  - rely on meat
* Most lions require cells
* Most lions seek meat
  - shelter
  - seize prey
  - shake manes
  - share common ancestors
  - stand on legs
  - subsist on diets
  - survive to adulthood
* Most lions take down prey
* Most lions thrive in Africa
  - ecosystems
  - environments
* Most lions use jaws
  - powerful jaws
  - tails
  - thick tails
  - wait for prey
  - watch lionesses
  - weigh lbs
* Some lion tamarins have nails
  - lions acquire the habit of eating people
* Some lions are inside ecosystems
  - member of circus
  - attract tourism
  - drink seawater
* Some lions eat bison
  - elk
  - fish
  - fruit
  - hippos
  - mule deer
  - straw
  - wildebeests
  - escape from zoos
  - face food shortages
  - fight to death
* Some lions follow gnus
  - parents
* Some lions get lean meat
  - give birth to offspring
  - go to water
* Some lions have classifications
  - distribution
  - edges
  - effects
  - enemies
  - few natural enemies
  - global distribution
  - individuals
  - kilograms
  - layers
  - limbs
* Some lions have natural enemies
  - negative effects
  - powerful limbs
  - spots
  - hunt young elephants
* Some lions kill adults
  - cheetahs
  - crocodiles
  - hyenas
  - impalas
  - pelicans
  - women
  - leave mothers
  - live for around years
* Some lions live in caves
  - dry places
  - mountains
  - parks
  - regions
  - valleys
  - lose paws
  - occasionally kill livestock or dogs
* Some lions possess enemies
  - lead
* Some lions prey on bushbucks
  - penguins
  - salmon
  - protect lions
* Some lions reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
* Some lions require diets
* Some lions rest on backs
  - plants
* Some lions seek antelopes
  - share territory
* Some lions sit in water
  - on stones
  - stand in fields
* Some lions tend to lionesses
  - wild lionesses
* Some lions thrive in districts
* adapt to development.
* also collect used hearing aids
  - eat carrion
* also have a range of sounds they make
  - gender boundaries
  - hunt primarily by stealth, and the most common method of killing it is by strangulation
  - kill other intruders like leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, and hyenas
  - like to squabble and fight with each other
  - roam Africa south of the Sahara
  - scavenge food, chasing away hyenas and other carnivores from their kills
  - use their teeth to eat and kill predators
* always begin at the tail of an animal and eat up toward the head.
* ambush zebras.
* appear in heraldry more often than any other animal.
* are a kind of big cat
  - major symbol of wild Africa
  - able to take down prey three times their size
  - about the only predators strong enough to bring down a healthy sable
  - abundant
  - active at night, mainly around sunrise and early evening
* are also a model for another human social no-no, homicide
  - threat to the cheetahs survival, for they kill off their young
  - animals who dominate other animals in nature
  - extremely aware of the subtle changes in posture of each other
  - opportunistic feeders, known to eat rodents, hares, small birds and reptiles
  - pack animals with fairly large prides of up to twenty
  - related to leopards and jaguars
  - the second biggest cats, behind only the tiger, in weight and length
  - an apex predator and they are carnivores
  - apex predators in the grassland ecosystem
  - basically friendly, greeting each other by rubbing their heads and faces together
  - big cats
  - big, powerful hunters
  - brought out with the mother to learn to hunt by their first birthday
* are capable of hunts
  - carnivores which means they eat meat
  - carnivores, or animals that only eat meat
  - celebrities
  - committed to preventing blindness and visual impairment
  - completely carnivorous and eat medium and sometime large animals when it can
  - desirable to hunters because of the very real danger involved
  - diurnal and nocturnal, and most hunting occurs at night
  - famous for their sonorous roar
  - felines
  - finely tuned hunting machines that nature has perfected over millions of years
  - found in savannas, grasslands, dense bush and woodlands
  - good climbers and can be seen resting in trees
  - hardest on themselves
  - highly territorial and occupy the same area for generations
  - incapable of decimating a healthy herd of deer
  - indisputably a formidable animal due to their size, their numbers, and their behavior
  - inefficient killers
* are inside Africa
  - just one type of species that use camouflage
  - known to engage in sex to create bonds and interact with each other
* are located in jungle
  - paintings
  - savannahs
  - mammals so they give birth
  - masters in saving energy
* are meat eaters and they are well suited to a life of hunting
  - meat-eaters and prefer their menu fresh
* are men and women who volunteer their time for humanitarian causes
  - their time to humanitarian causes
  - their time to serve humanity
* are more likely to fail than succeed in their attempts to kill
  - social than most other cat species which are usually solitary by nature
  - successful when they hunt in groups for prey
* are most active at night
  - from dusk to dawn, although they travel and hunt in the daylight
  - affectionate to their like-sexed companions
  - nervous and and temperamental
  - nocturnal predators, much more active at night than during the day
  - often alone, or when they do form groups, membership can change daily
  - one of the great carnivores
  - opportunistic, and carrion is easy food
  - opportunists when it comes to feeding
  - part of pride
  - particularly good at hunting zebras and wildebeests
* are people who have decided to give something back to their community
  - take responsibility seriously
  - predators that often eat weakened or diseased animals
  - predominantly nocturnal
* are primarily ground-dwellers, but occasionally climb trees for safety or to avoid insects
  - jump up tree branches
  - quite possibly one of the most fascinating creatures in the world
  - rather lazy animals that spend much of the day sleeping under a tree
  - scavengers, too
* are social animals that hunt and live in groups called prides
  - animals, living in groups called prides
  - some of the largest and most famous members of the cat family
  - strictly meat eaters
  - team hunters with lionesses doing most of the hunting
* are the kings of the beasts because they dominate the weaker animals
  - laziest of the big cats
* are the most social cats, living in large groups called prides
  - only big cats that live in large groups
* are the only cats that live in groups, which are called prides
  - in large family groups
  - in mixed sex groups called prides
* are the only cats to have tufted tails and male lions the only cat to have a mane
  - with manes, and only males have manes
* are the only social big cats
  - cats, and their gregarious behaviour has long been a puzzle
  - truly social cat species
  - primary competitors of spotted hyenas
  - world's most social felines
  - youngest major social service organization, yet have grown to be the world's largest
  - there major predators
  - unique among cats in that they live in a group, or pride
  - unusual amongst the cat species because they are social animals, living in prides
  - unusually social in comparison with other types of cats
* are used for cartoons
  - fables
  - safaris
  - trophy hunting and hunted and poisoned by farmers who have lost stock to lions
  - usually very quiet and solitary, except when mating
* are very powerful and usually kill large animals, such as deer and elk
  - scary animals
* are very social animals while tigers tend to be lonely and to live by themselves
  - cats and live in groups called prides
  - strong cats
  - vocal and their roaring is audible over several kilometres
  - voracious carnivores and commonly prey on browsers like antelopes, water bucks and zebras
  - wild animals
* assess the manes of other individuals during confrontations.
* attack animals
* attain the greatest geographical distribution of any terrestrial nonhuman mammals.
* automatically sharpen their claws on tree trunks.
* become mice.
* become sexually mature around the age of two to three years
  - at age two
* breathe air.
* can also represent the emotion of pride.
* can be difficult to work with
  - extremely fierce and, occasionally, as gentle and playful as kittens
  - very aggressive and competitive
  - charge easily across open plains
  - instead eat hard grains and so on
  - instill in youth the value of international fellowship and knowledge of other countries
  - live in cool climates and in the intense heat of semidesert areas
  - participate in a wide range of such activities
  - roar from any position, however, they generally tend to be standing
  - run very fast for a short distance
  - steal food from other predators such as cheetahs
* capture prey.
* carry another disease that is very similar to a human disease
* chase calves
* cohabit only once in a year.
* come from Africa
  - all walks of life
* commonly prey upon zebras and African antelope weighing twice their weight.
* communicate with each other in a wide variety of ways.
* continue to eat their favorite animals and snakes continue to bite people.
* desire mates.
* do service activities that improve life quality in Finland
  - sometimes become man eaters
  - team up to hunt large prey, rear their cubs and frighten away rivals
* drag the carcass to a sheltered spot beneath a tree or overhang to feed on it.
  - antelope, and wolves eat deer
  - both fresh kill and carrion-dead animals or the kill of other animals
  - gazelles as well as many other animals
* eat large mammals
  - prey, such as gazelles, antelopes, zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, and buffalo
  - once every three days, and they had just eaten, so the kudu was lucky
  - zebras, and zebras eat plants
* even kill people.
* family orientated organisation.
  - on a variety of large and medium-size prey
* feeding on a kill can be dangerous to people.
* find plenty of prey among the grass-eaters
* form gangs to kill other lions so they can gain access to the lionesses.
* gain advantage
* generally move the carcass and re-cover it after each feeding.
* get dinner
  - faster, so gazelles get faster
* greet upon waking and whenever they meet after being separated
  - whenever they meet after being separated or upon waking
* has-part backs
* have a built in sense of risk reward
  - different number of teeth and are part of another genus
  - light brown, tawny color
  - pungent predator odor
  - wide habitat tolerance ranging from desert conditions to fairly dense bush
* have an important role in the park ecosystem because they prevent the overpopulation of deer
  - upper and lower respiratory tract
  - complex social structures
  - dirty beige colored fur and rounded heads
  - excellent night vision which is good for hunting
  - expressive faces
* have limit distribution ranges
  - massive shoulders and strong forelimbs, long, sharp claws, and short, powerful jaws
  - nine distinct vocalizations including roars, grunts and growls
  - other forms of communication as well, mostly used to mark territory
* have relatively short-legged, long and muscular bodies and large heads
  - long, muscular bodies and large heads
  - retractable claws which they use to catch prey and climb trees
  - sharpe teeth
  - short-haired coats of tawny brown, with the tail ending in a dark tuft
  - strong teeth and jaws and are able to tear the meat with their sharp teeth
  - tawny, or yellowish brown, fur
  - the satisfaction of knowing that they have made an important difference in many lives
* have to flood themselves with water after gorging on a kill or their insides close down
  - hunt zebras and antelopes
* help the sight impaired.
* however fight over a kill and they never wait for their females or young to eat first.
* hunt antelopes
  - baby zebras
  - for food
  - together to provide food for the pride
  - together, sometimes in packs of four or five to bring down a water buffalo
  - various animals and usually hunt in prides
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - nuclei
  - pads
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
* inhabit Africa and southern Asia to western India
  - a wide range of habitats, from open plains to thick brush and dry thorn forest
  - in grasslands, savanna and other forests
* is the world's largest service organization dedicated to helping people with vision problems.
  - cheetah cubs
  - cows, goats, and other livestock for food
  - hyenas for no reason and simply leave the carcass to rot
  - less young animals then hunting dogs or cheetahs, they concentrate on bigger animals
  - only for food or when they are defending themselves or their young
* kills a significant number of juveniles each year.
* lift heads.
* like to eat other animals
  - the animal's soft entrails first and then move on to the rest of the animal
  - pick out one member of the herd that looks weak
* live for up to thirty years
* live in a social group called a pride
  - wide range of habitats including plains, grasslands, forests, and even semi-deserts
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* live in groups called prides and always a male lion is the most prominent member of the pride
  - dominated by one male, several females and their cubs
  - of three to thirty individuals, called prides
  - that are called prides
  - open grasslands and woodlands
  - prides of related females with one or several males protecting their territory
  - something called a pride and their bellows can be heard all around the land
  - the savanna of Africa south of the Sahara
  - woodlands, grassy plains, and in areas with thorny scrub tree
* live together in groups called 'prides'
* love Porcupines
  - attention and like to play in water
  - the dusk
* love to be in charge
  - rest and relax
* mainly eat zebras, antalope, birds, lizards and the occassional elephant.
* mark their territories by means of scent deposits, necessitating a good sense of smell
  - either by urinating, roaring, or patrolling
* mate sexually as a pride, raising the cubs as a community.
* now survive in greatest number where humans are scarce.
* occur in open grasslands, dense bush and scrubs areas and woodlands.
* often hunt at night because they can surprise their prey more easily in the dark
  - steal kill from hyenas
* play a part in craft activities.
* prey mostly on hoofed animals, although they occasionally consume fallen fruit.
* prey on a large number of animals
  - zebras, and zebras eat grass
* proclaim their territory by roaring and by scent marking.
* promote peace by serving where service is needed all over the world.
* provide free trained leader dogs to legally blind adults
  - thousands each year with free quality eye examinations, eyeglasses and eye care
* raise funds and give their time freely to help the less fortunate
* reach full maturity at around six years of age.
* recognize each other by their signature roar.
* rely heavily on their ears for communication, finding prey and avoiding threats
* represent strength and courage.
* reproduce from the age of three years on.
* roam countrysides.
* shake heads
* share ancestors
* show enormous strength.
* sleep about twenty hours per day, and usually hunt at night
  - as much as twenty hours a day
  - away most of the day because it is usually too hot to hunt
* sometimes prey on giraffes
* span the globe and are the worlds' largest and most active service organization.
* speak dozens of languages and vary in nature and customs.
* spend much of their time resting and are active only about four hours every day.
* sponsor baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer and other sports teams for youngsters
  - money-raising activities to provide the necessary funds for qualified individuals
* spot animals
  - furry animals
* stalk prey
  - the herds at calving time, preying on the weakest newborn calves
* stand between three and a half and four feet tall at the shoulder
  - three feet tall at the shoulders
  - up for their rights, but also have no qualms about squashing others' rights
* still inhabit most of the northern India and Middle East up to the turn of the century
  - live in the eastern part of central Africa and in southern Africa
* suggest deity in a variety of cultures, for instance.
* swallow food.
* tear and fight and scrap and cover themselves with blood as they eat their prey.
  - on competition and challenge and they highly value productivity and success
* typically find their prey via sense of hearing or simply visually
  - kill and feed once every four days
* use a variety of vocalizations, most notably the roar
  - their roar as one form of communication
* usually have broad faces with large muzzles
  - two to three young, born after a three and a half month gestation period
* usually hunt at night and rest during the day
  - night, particularly at dusk and dawn, with lionesses doing most of the work
  - kill with a powerful bite below the base of the skull, breaking the neck
* usually live in a group, called a pride, based on one or more family units
  - packs and the females almost always do the hunting
  - remove the viscera and eat the heart, liver, and lungs first
* vary in color but are typically a light, yellowish-brown
  - typically sport light yellow-brown coats
  - widely in their tastes, which tend to vary on a region by region basis
* volunteer their time to humanitarian causes in their local and world communities.
* wander beaches and elephants slide down dunes on the coast of Namibia.
* want antelopes
* wear their emblem with pride.
* worldwide fraternal organization broken into regions in divisions.
+ Lion, Behaviour: Panthera :: Mammals of Africa
  * Lions live in groups that are called prides. Ten to forty lions may live in a pride. Each pride has a home area that is called its territory. A territory can be as large as. This however, is usually carried out by competing males
  - Lions in heraldry
  * Lions appear in heraldry more often than any other animal. They traditionally symbolise courage, valour and royalty
+ Lions in heraldry: Heraldry
  * Lions appear in heraldry more often than any other animal. It traditionally symbolises bravery, valour, strength, and royalty.