Sizes
Length: body- up to 8'2"; tail- up to 3'5"
Weight: males: 385-450 pounds females: 250-320 pounds
Breeding
Sexual Maturity: 3 years
mating: non-seasonal in tropics, early autumn in extremes of range
Gestation:15-17 weeks
Litter size: up to 6 cubs
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Lifestyle
Habit: true social cat and lives in groups called prides
Diet: take almost any prey ranging from small rodents to young rhinos, hippos and elephants, but mostly zebra, wildebeest, impala, warthog, hartebeest and waterbuck
Lifespan: In captivity, lions can live 25-30 years, as compared to 12 in the wild for males and 15-16 for females.
Related Species
3 sub-species
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