Lion | Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
Lions have strong, compact bodies and powerful forelegs, teeth and jaws for pulling down and killing prey. Their coats are yellow-gold, and adult males have shaggy manes that range in color from blond to reddish-brown to black. The length and color of a lion's mane is likely determined by age, genetics and hormones.
Wild Inside the National Zoo: Lion Pride - YouTube
2014年9月15日 · Within two months, six new lion cubs are born at Smithsonian's National Zoo. In the second episode of our web series, their caretakers walk us through pride life, from tracking the cubs' health...
Saving The African Lion In North American Zoos
2013年3月14日 · Results from this research will help us to identify ways to control reproduction safely and effectively and ensure a healthy population of lions in zoos for the future.
Lion - San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants
Prime habitat for lions is open woodlands, thick grassland, and brush habitat, where there is enough cover for hunting and denning. These areas of grassland habitat also provide food for the herbivores that lions prey upon. Lions differ from the other members of the large cat genus, Panthera —tigers, leopards, and jaguars.
Lion Cam | Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
2024年1月19日 · The world's most social felines, lions hunt cooperatively and raise cubs in prides. Watch the Smithsonian's National Zoo's lions live, 24/7 on the Lion Cam.
African Lion - The Maryland Zoo
See our African lions in the African Journey area of the Zoo. Lions prefer to hunt in tall grasses that provide cover so that they can stalk their prey, get very close, and then attack. Several lionesses will try to converge on a single prey and bring it down together.
African Lion - The Houston Zoo
African Lion. Lions are the only truly social cat species, living in groups called prides. Males have manes, but females rule the family. They live in the African savannah, woodlands, and desert.
African Lion - Zoo Atlanta
Come see them in early 2025! Lions prey mostly on grazing or browsing animals such as zebra, various species of antelope or even wildebeest. The entire animal is consumed except for the largest bones. Like all cats, lions have specialized tongues with …
African Lion | Franklin Park Zoo - Zoo New England
Lions hunt in groups, usually females, for wildebeest, zebra, antelope and other small animals. Male lions can even take down a giraffe! They're carnivores, eating only meat.
African Lion - Philadelphia Zoo
In zoos, they typically live 15-20 years but can live as long as 30 years. Diet: As opportunistic feeders, lions will hunt anything that is available from small and large vertebrates to carrion. Their preferred sources of food in the wild are wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, and giraffes.