Alias:East African lion, Masai lion
Outline:Carnivora
Family:Schizopoda Felidae Panthera
length:2.7m
Weight:120-170kg
Life:15-20 years
IUCN:LC
The Masai lion is the original subspecies of lion, commonly known as the East African lion. It is now the Nubian lion population: Panthera leo massaicus.
Lionesses in a pride may enter a mating state at any time, and the lionesses are always synchronized in this regard. Scientists have not yet fully understood the mechanism behind this strange and interesting phenomenon. However, this ensures that the children in the pride are basically the same age, and each mother can breastfeed different children. When some mothers go out hunting, the remaining mothers will be obliged to act as the nanny of all the children. In addition, the lionesses who have not given birth will also take the responsibility of taking care of the lion cubs, licking their fur and playing with them.
The biggest "natural enemy" of lions is of course modern humans who are armed to the teeth. And most of their hunting has nothing to do with survival, but just to satisfy their abnormal desire to kill. Infectious diseases that break out on the grassland can kill tens of thousands of animals in a short period of time, such as tuberculosis and feline AIDS (FIV).
Every year, Masai lions follow the great migration of wildebeests and travel back and forth between Tanzania's Serengeti National Park and Kenya's Masai Mara National Park. Many zoologists study them. Some scholars also regard the Masai lions produced in Uganda as an independent subspecies: the Ugandan subspecies (Panhtera leo nyanzae). In the past, George B. Schaller wrote a book called "The Serengeti Lion", which is a good book to understand Masai lions. There is news that the number of Serengeti Masai lions has increased from 2,000 to 3,500.
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