In this video we initially see a lioness copulating with a male lion. And then along comes the male lion’s dominant brother. We can see this because the dominant male attacks his subservient brother who behaves in a submissive way by rolling on his back. In the meantime, the female who is in heat …
A couple of scientific reports indicate to me that when the domestic cat is left to their own devices such as in rural locations e.g. as barn cats, their behaviour is very similar to that of lions living in the African Serengeti. People think of lion pride behavior as unique in the cooperation between …
People ask, “Do female lions kill male lions?” The answer is, rarely yes. It should be noted, however, that my excellent reference books on this matter do not refer to lionesses killing male lions or attacking them in the ways described in articles on the Internet. This points to the rarity of these events …
The lion kill rate varies so much that there is no standard or average. My source tells me that the reported kill rate ‘of individual lions varies from a low of ten to twelve prey per year to a high of forty-seven. To try and work out a standard success rate across all lion …
This is a good picture from a video of 15 out of 22 lions from a ‘mega pride’ drinking from a pond. A pride of twenty-two lions is a good size. The person who captured the video says that some prides can go over 20 individuals that when they are called mega prides. The …
G.B. Schaller in his book The Serengeti Lion (1972) examined several hundred lion kills and only on 13 occasions did he record lions covering the remains of their prey animals. The problem for lions is that over much of their African range the landscape is very open and scavengers are very numerous which discourages …
Lions normally drink water every day if it is available. When researchers have observed prides of lions in the Serengeti and the nearby Ngorongoro Crater they drank after every meal. Although lions can manage without drinking water when it is scarce. Lions live in a semi-desert habitat and even in desert. Under these circumstances …
Normally, lions do not eat other lions but it is reported anecdotally that there have been exceedingly rare exceptions of male lions eating the young offspring of females in a pride that they wish to take over. Perhaps the biggest exception is the legend of the Mapogo lions who were notorious for killing a …
