lion kings of forest: Lion,s Lifestyle And Social Behavior

Lifestyle And Social behavior

A lioness in search of game.
Unlike other big cats, rather solitary, lions live in troops, who are permanent social units, composed of related females with one another, unrelated males to females and their offspring. The size of the territory and the number of prey determine the size of the group varies from 3 to 30 individuals. There is usually in the group one to seven adult males and one to eighteen females. The territory of a troop covers 20 500 km2. In the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, lion density can reach a person per square kilometer. In the crater of Ngorongoro, the maximum number of individuals is 1.6 to 2.4 sq km. Borders of their territories are defined by their feces and urine, indicating that there defense entering the area. They also scrape the ground with their fore and hind legs, depositing a substance secreted by glands in their pads

Young males are about two to three years in the group, until they reached sexual maturity. They are then driven by the dominant lion. Against by females usually spend their entire lives in the group of birth and breed. This prevents inbreeding.

When the young males of the group were driven by their fathers, they become nomads and together form a "coalition", sometimes joined by other young males. The link between the male is very strong. Young males move together very long distances, do not respect territorial boundaries, but do not base their own territory. Since males have very little success in hunting, compared to females, young nomads mostly eat carrion.
Such coalitions of young males will try to lead a troop in ousting the resident males. However, this is not always successful. Such struggles are usually bloody, and it is not uncommon for them to come to an end fatally. If the old males of the group lose the fight, they are hunted and then lead a solitary life. They often die as a result of their injuries. If the newcomers win, they frequently come to infanticide, that is to say they kill the young of their predecessors. This behavior allows females to quickly find an estrus and thus be capable of breeding again. Males can mate and earlier and ensure their own offspring. This behavior is adaptive: in fact, competition is fierce between coalitions of males and young males will soon try to dethrone to take their turn leading the group. Males have not time to waste and they must hold at the top of the group until the cubs are old enough to be spared. Males are rarely more than three or four years as head of the group, and therefore do not have time to wait that made the predecessors have become adults to spawn. Often the females attacked the male assassin

In general, the lions do not practice full mutual toilets with only the back of the nose is clean, but when coarse dirt, for example by the blood of prey, there may be a member to make fur care.

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