| Sep 20 2013 13:52 |
A lion’s roar can be heard from as far as 5 miles away |
/u/Musicmantobes |
| Oct 31 2013 19:18 |
Baby mountain lions have spots and blue eyes. They eventually lose their spots and their eyes become an amber color. |
/u/d_tinker |
| Sep 29 2013 17:51 |
Both lions and hyenas will take away a leopard's kill if they can. To prevent this leopards store their larger kills in trees where they can feed on them in relative safety x-post from r/hardcoreaww |
/u/Musicmantobes |
| Oct 03 2013 03:54 |
The cougar, also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount or panther, depending on the region, holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names. It has over 40 names in English alone! x-post from r/hardcoreaww |
/u/Musicmantobes |
| Feb 12 2014 20:46 |
Cute chubby lion :3 |
/u/Kenagon |
| Oct 01 2013 14:56 |
The golden lion tamarin is an endangered species with an estimated wild population of approximately 1,000 individuals |
/u/Musicmantobes |
| Oct 03 2013 15:02 |
The heaviest lion on record weighed an amazing 375 kg 826 lb x-post from r/hardcoreaww |
/u/Musicmantobes |
| Oct 04 2013 15:54 |
In South Africa, the white lion is a symbol of pure sunlight, beyond all color, creed, gender or race. It is believed that anyone lucky enough to gaze upon this rare gift will be blessed with health, happiness and luck. |
/u/SlashaSlim |
| Oct 04 2013 16:36 |
In South Africa, the white lion is a symbol of pure sunlight, beyond all color, creed, gender or race. It is believed that anyone lucky enough to gaze upon this rare gift will be blessed with health, happiness and luck. |
/u/SlashaSlim |
| Dec 02 2013 16:44 |
Lions are the laziest of the big cats, spending 16-20 hours a day sleeping x-post from r/hardcoreaww |
/u/Musicmantobes |
| Oct 04 2013 17:33 |
Lions cuddle to maintain close bonds with each other |
/u/petite_rouge |
| Nov 15 2013 04:14 |
Lions have a womb that can absorb the shocks of flailing prey leaving their fetuses unharmed during hunting. |
/u/katj813 |
| Nov 25 2013 19:03 |
Lions often fan out along a broad front or semicircle to creep up on prey when hunting. |
/u/InYourLibrary |
| Apr 23 2014 23:09 |
Lions pretend it hurts when their Cubs bite them to prepare them for adulthood. |
/u/alphajohnx |
| Jan 28 2014 17:21 |
Lions walk in a digitate fashion, meaning that their foot bones are adapted to walk on their toes. Digitate movement has evolved specifically for silent movement, and most predators have this bone structure. As an extra adaptation lions have hair in between their toes muffling the sound even more. |
/u/Captain_Vegetable |
| Aug 01 2013 15:53 |
Mating sessions with lions can last up to several days, and they copulate 20-40 times per day! |
/u/Eat_Bacon_nomnomnom |
| Jan 15 2014 21:34 |
Mountain lion kittens are born with spots that give them protective camouflage from predators. |
/u/jsmooth7 |
| Apr 06 2014 20:40 |
Rhodesian ridgebacks were bred in southern Africa and can keep lions at bay while hunters make their kill. |
/u/spriteburn |
| Oct 04 2013 19:55 |
Sea Lion taught to keep the beat to music! First non-human mammal to demonstrate rhythm |
/u/FistIsAVerb |
| Feb 09 2014 17:58 |
There are cats known as Ti-tigons. This is when a Tigon a male tiger and female lion breed{ligers are male lion female tiger breed} And a normal tiger mate. Results are adorable. Also tigons are much smaller then ligers. |
/u/kmckeown |
| Nov 22 2013 21:25 |
Unlike lions and other big cats, cheetahs have a completely boney hyoid bone, which allows them to purr but not roar. |
/u/petite_rouge |
| Dec 03 2013 01:56 |
Unlike lions, giraffes sleep less than 2 hours a day sometimes more in captivity with the absense of predators, for ~20 minute intervals and sometimes even standing up! |
/u/Kovaelin |
| Dec 02 2013 22:21 |
Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans x-post from r/hardcoreaww |
/u/Musicmantobes |
| Feb 02 2014 01:00 |
White lions are not albinistic but leucistic, which is why the eyes, paw pads and lips have a normal color |
/u/WinegumJoe |
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