Lion

 

Lion

features:

The lion is the second largest living feline after the tiger. With powerful limbs, a strong jaw, and three-inch canine teeth, the lion can kill large prey. Lion coloration ranges from light beige to yellowish brown, reddish or dark ocher. The underparts are usually lighter and the hair at the end of the tail is black. Young lions have a stained pattern that fades with age, although it can sometimes be seen on the legs and belly, especially of lionesses.

Lions are the only felids that show evident sexual dimorphism; that is, males and females look remarkably different as a result of the specialized roles they play within the group. For example, the lioness, as a hunter, lacks the male's dense mane, which would impair her ability to camouflage herself when setting up ambushes. The color of the mane ranges from blonde to black and tends to darken as the lion ages.

Size:

The weight of adult lions generally varies between 150–250 kg in males and 120–182 kg in females; although a dead male near Mount Kenya weighed 272 kg. The mean weight of males is estimated at 181 kg and that of females at 126 kg. Lions tend to be different in size depending on the environment and the area they inhabit, which results in a wide variety of recorded weights. For example, Southern African lions tend to weigh 5% more than Eastern African lions overall.

The length of the head and the body is 170 to 250 cm in males and 140 to 175 cm in females; the height at the shoulder is about 123 cm in males and 107 cm in females. The tail measures 90 to 105 cm in males and 70 to 100 cm in females. The longest known lion was a black-maned male shot dead near Mucsso (southern Angola) in October 1973; the heaviest lion known was a man-eating man killed in 1936 outside Hectorspruit, in the eastern Transvaal, South Africa, weighing 313 kg. Captive lions tend to be larger than wild ones - the largest lion ever documented is a male from Colchester Zoo (England) named Simba, who weighed 375 kg in 1970.

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