Lion: the “king of the Jungle” the title always given to a lion, as we often heard, seen and read. The roar of a lion makes other animals in the jungle tremble. Hearing this sound, they run to save themselves from this mighty ferocious hunter. It seems that when they hear the sound, the great hunter is coming and ready to hunt them to tear them in pieces, ready for meal.
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| The Mighty Lion |
Lion is a carnivore (meat eater) and a hunter. It has its powerful forelegs to grab or slap down large prey that would otherwise outrun it. The jaws are short and strong with long canine teeth that are used to quickly kill the prey; either by biting the neck and strangling or by biting the nose and suffocating. The tongue upper surface has small bumps on it which enables the lion to hold on to meat while eating and to remove parasites when grooming. Its legs are short with very powerful muscles enabling it to sprint and bring down large prey. The ability to retract its claws helps in protecting them so they maintain their sharpness.
Lions are more social than most other cat species which are usually solitary by nature. They live in prides composed of three to thirty individuals, related adults females and their young. Each pride has its own social dominant hierarchy in which the weakest male ranks above all females. If a resident males are defeated by new males they will leave the pride and typically never returns.
The male rarely hunts with the pride, perhaps because its mane makes it too obvious.
The prey is eaten by all members of the pride. As each struggles to eat as much as possible, the fight erupt, growling, hissing, and paw swiping. The strongest eat most. Afterwards they all calm down and greet each other affectionately and peaceful cooperative life of the pride continues.
If a pride is taken over by a new male who has defeated the top resident male, he will mostly likely kill any existing cubs that are under 2 years old. This rapidly brings the females into breeding condition, ensuring that the strongest male gets to breed and continue his genetic line.
Lions not only great hunter but also have their own form of government because they know how to step down from their place if ever they are defeated. Sometimes human should learn from lions, we should know how to accept if ever we are defeated and lose, we should learn how to humble down like lions that eventhough they are fierce creature, yet learn to accept defeats in their life.
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| The Mighty Creation |
Every creature that GOD created has its importance and we have something to learn from them.
Lion not only a great hunter but a mighty and strong creature in the jungle. Learn to love nature by preserving God's creature.
Resources:honolulu.org
wikipedia/google.com
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