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Lions
Lions do not hunt. Their job is to service the Pride and lionesses are extremely affectionate with their lead male..
Lionesses are the hunters. They hunt in a pack and are very efficient and effective killers. Lionesses hunt in teams to bring down large animals like the buffalo. They approach their prey stealthily, fanning out to cut off escape routes, until they are within about 30 m (100 ft). At this point the hunters charge. A successful charge-about one in four-ends when one lioness bites the downed animal on the throat or muzzle, suffocating it. Males rarely participate in the hunt, but their size enables them to muscle into the feeding circle.
Lions are unusual among cats for their habit of living in groups. A pride consists of 2 to 12 adult females and their cubs. All of the females are related: sisters, mothers, aunts, and cousins. Born into a pride, a female will stay in it for life, although a large pride may split into smaller ones. Pride females care for cubs together, hunt and eat together, and aggressively defend their hunting grounds and water holes from other prides.
Equally important, pride females must often defend their cubs from new dominant males when they take over the pride. Statistics show that invading male lions kill as many as one-quarter of all lion cubs. When a female loses her cubs, she is willing to mate sooner with the new males. However, females vigorously try to defend their cubs. One on one, a female lion is no match for a much larger male lion. But by fighting together, pride females are sometimes able to save their cubs.
When a female lion is in estrus she mates repeatedly with all of the coalition males. After a gestation of 110 days, she gives birth to one to four young in a secluded place away from the group. The mother introduces the cubs to the pride when they are about eight weeks old. Very often, several females give birth at about the same time, and they share the duties of protecting and nursing the cubs.
