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This is my latest wildlife instalment of information and art features on lions.
Lions live across areas in Africa and Asia. There are debated to be 12 known subspecies. The major differences between these subspecies are location, mane appearance, size, and distribution.
Dominant male lions have a harem of females which do the majority of the hunting. When a younger male fights a dominant male for control of the harem and succeeds in chasing the older male away he will kill all of the cubs and mate with the females.
The lion is the second largest feline after the tiger. Lions live for 12-16 years in the wild and 25 years in captivity
