eat after the adult males they
are the next important in the
group, and the cubs eat last and
they eat the left overs.
Sarah Holaday works
at the wildcat sanctuary
as a care taker. she cares
a lot about the animals
there and is responsible
for all the animals. “I
like learning about how
they hunt together and
how they keep peace
living in such a large
family’’, said Holaday.
prey for the lions because run
away.
Body Parts
running like cheetahs. 50 miles
per hour is a lion’s top speed.
They don’t run a lot because
when they hunt they attack from
close proximity. Lionesses
(female) lions are faster than a
male lion because lionesses do
most of the hunting.
How They Hunt
Lions
don’t live alone they
live in groups.To hunt they need
to be successful. They can catch
a small prey by themselves but
big prey like deer, zebras, and
gazelles. with a team/group
they can surround the prey and
kill the prey. Mostly the female
lions team up and get the prey.
A lion mostly hunts at night
and sleeps in the day time. Lions
usually sleep 20 hours a day just
like house cats do! They do not
like to sleep by themselves they
gather and sleep with a groups
and they like to rub their heads
together and playing.
Lions have to go through a
lot of steps to get food because
they have to hunt. First,
they always look for the
target. Then they stalk the
target by hiding in the tall
brown grass.
Lions lick each other to
keep clean. lions live in hot
habitats such as grasslands and
savannas. A lion is lighter than a
piano so about 265-420 pounds
and shorter than a school bus so
about 4.5-6.5 feet.
That’s why lion’s have brown
fur/coat to camouflage so they
can’t be bright blue, bright pink
or very neon colors. Then when
it’s the right time for them to
chase the prey they make a run
for it. Once it chases the prey
for a while it pounces on it’s
prey. Then, it is killed.
In conclusion a lion is a very
powerful animal also called “
The King of he Jungle’’. The
lion always eats raw meat and
will hunt when its hungry. So
the next time, you go to a desert
or, up in the mountains think
about a lion or watch out for a
lion.
The lion has to kill its
prey to eat it. When it’s bitten in
the neck it is dragged to the
pride. Pride is what they call a
group of lions. 1 lion can carry
a 800 pound prey. The “kill” is
very important part to getting
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A lion is not the best at
ANIMALS