Lions By: Jackson Siler 1) Type the name of your animal 2) type your name 3) include a picture of your animal 4) change fonts and colors to personalize. By: Jackson Siler

Animal Facts Diet Description Movement Lions are muscular cats with short rounded heads, round ears and a hairy tuft at the end  of their tails. The colors of a lion are light tan to silvery grey, yellowish red and dark brown. Males are typically 350-550 pounds, while females are 265 – 400 pounds. Diet Lions are carnivores that mostly eat mammals.  Their favorites are zebras, warthogs,  wildebeests, and gazelles. Movement Lions walk and run on their paws. Lions can only run fast for a short period of time. So most times they creep silently through the grass that helps camouflages them. 1) Type a description of your animal 2) Type whether your animal is an herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore and what does it eat? 3) text telling how your animal moves 4) pic showing your animal 5)change fonts and colors to personalize.

Habitat 1) Lions live in Africa and Asia. 2) They can be found in savannas, grasslands, dense brush and woodlands. 3) Lions hunting techniques are more successful on long grass and thick brush as they will stalk their prey to within 20 meters using the cover they have available. 1) Fact #1 and picture 2) fact #2 and picture 3) fact #3 and picture 4) change fonts and colors to personalize.

Life Cycle After a gestation period of around 110 days the female lion give birth to a litter of usually 1 to 4 cubs. Lion cubs are born blind and can't see until about 7 days after they are born.  Cubs usually weigh between 2.6 - 4.6 pounds at birth. Male lions reach maturity around 3 years old.  They are capable of challenging and displacing adult males in their pride around 4-5 years old.  Females begin reproducing around 4 years old.  Lions generally live an average of 10-14 years. 1) Info about when animal a baby 2) pic of your animal as baby or when young 3) text telling about animal changes as growing into an adult 4) pic of your animal as an adult 5) change fonts and colors to personalize.

Animal Interactions Lions protect themselves with their large size, sharp teeth and sharp claws.  They also live in groups called "prides" which gives them protection in number.  Lions use different calls when communicating with each other.  They have roars, meows, growls, snarls, and purrs, each of which has a different meaning. Sharp teeth Natural Enemies – Lions and Hyenas The only predator to an adult male lion is humans.  However, lion cubs are vulnerable to predators like hyenas, leopards and jackals. 1) Info about animal adaptation that protects your animal 2) pic and caption of an adaptation 3) text telling about another animal interaction (enemy, predator, prey, etc) 4) pic and caption of enemy, predator, prey, etc. 5) change fonts and colors to personalize.

Interesting Facts F Who's the hunter? Not limited by size Females are the main hunters of the pride. However the males are the first to eat. F Ligers and Tigons Did you know that when a male lion and a female tiger breed its called a liger. And a female lion and a male tiger breed its called a tigon. Not limited by size Lions can hunt animals much larger than themselves.  They can kill an animal up to about 1000 pounds. They snap their prey's neck or strangle it to death. The Mane Deal The mane's function is to make the male look more impressive to females and more intimidating to other males 1) Fact #1 and picture 2) fact #2 and picture 3) fact #3 and picture 4) change fonts and colors to personalize. The picture of the is on the left and the picture of the liger is on the right tigon.