Scovone Star Magazine 2016-2017 | Page 7

LOUD LIONS lions hunt, their food can be big. Their food could be as large as an elephant. Lions have kids too.They are called cubs.When female lions go hunting,male lions stay back to protect the cubs.When the cubs are going to go hunting with the rest of the pride, they practice pouncing on each other, sneaking up on each other, and blending in with the grass. couple lions going out to hunt HABITS Lions have a lot of habits. Some of them even help them stay alive like sleeping and eating. Lions have to sleep to get energy to hunt but eating also gives the strength to hunt. But lioness do most the hunting. Lion habits are different from people habits.They hunt and we don’t ( unless you are a hunter) but most likely not.They sleep way more than we do, they sleep 75% of the day and we sleep half as much as lions do. DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIONS East African- lions are one of the most common lions because African lions are the common lion because most lions come from Africa but east African lions are also African lions they are just from the east of Africa which still means they are from Africa. Asian lions are the 2nd most common lions because believe it or not, but mostly all lions are either from Asia or Africa unless they are zoo lions which in that case they were found in jungles by explorers/ zoologist and were given to zoos to enclose . Like that famous lion zoologist, Paul Thompson said “I love going out on the field to look for lions.”He also works for a zoo Different types of lions interact/ bond in many ways, like if a African male met an Asian female then they mate and become African lions lions eating prey – 7 –