Male Lion Hunts Better Than Lioness | Fascinating Video

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like and subscribe my channel. also like my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/sarhyanakar Lions are the second largest cats after the tiger. Most are tawny in color; faint spots found on the young are occasionally kept into maturity. Lions are the only sexually dimorphic cats, meaning the female and males differ in appearance. The males have thick mane around the head that extends down the chest between the forelegs; the mane can vary in color from yellow to black. There are a few populations that have very thin or no manes; males who have been injured may also lose their manes. Lions are the only cats with tufts at the end of their tails. They have massive shoulders and strong forelimbs, long sharp claws, and short powerful jaws. Their muscular build generates a lot of metabolic heat and they may pant just from walking across an open plain. Lions have nine distinct vocalizations, including roars and puffing (similar to chuffling in the tiger). Their roar can be heard by humans over five miles away. They climb trees to avoid swarms of biting flies and escape herds of Cape buffalo. One group on a tiny isolated island in the Duba Plains of Botswana's Okavango Delta has specialized in hunting Cape buffalo and they swim through deep rivers to get to them. Adult lions are mainly nocturnal and are the least active of the big cats, sleeping or resting about 20 hours a day. Both males and females mark their territories by roaring and scent marking. Lions give a flehmen response when they investigate scent marks or the reproductive state of lionesses. Males with newly won prides often kill existing cubs; the females then come into estrus and the males sire their own cubs. The lioness gives birth in a secluded area away from the group and introduces the cubs to the pride when they are about eight weeks old. Often several females give birth at about the same time and they share the duties of protecting the cubs in a communal nursery called a crèche. They may also sometimes nurse cubs other than their own. Young cubs are vulnerable to predation by hyenas, leopards and black-backed jackals. As a result of this, as well as starvation during times of food shortages and attacks by males taking over a pride, 60-70% of lion cubs die within their first 2 years of life. Lionesses will sometimes leave the pride with cubs to protect them until the age of 2 years and some die defending their cubs. Asiatic Lions Asiatic lions once ranged from the Mediterranean to the north-eastern Indian subcontinent. Today, they survive in the Gir Forest of Gujarat state in India. An effort to establish a second group in another state has met resistance as Gujarat doesn't want to lose its distinction as the only sanctuary. Asiatic lions are similar to African lions, but they have a belly fold, a flap of skin that runs the length of the belly between the front and hind legs. Their manes are thinner than those of African lions but their coats are thicker and their tail tufts are longer. Their color ranges from reddish-brown to a highly mottled black to sandy cinnamon grey. Their prides are smaller than those of African lions, with an average of only two females. The Asiatic males are less social and only associate with the pride when mating or for a large kill. Asiatic lions prey predominantly on deer (sambar and chital), antelope (nilgai), gazelle (chinkara), wild boar, water buffalo and livestock. Habitat decline for lions in the Gir Forest may be associated with the presence of nomadic herdsmen whose cows are causing overgrazing, which reduces the lions' natural prey. When the lions shift to killing cattle, they may be poisoned. Others die from run-ins with farmers' illegal electrical fences or drown in open wells dug by farmers for irrigation.