Ok so I'm quite befuddled by this. Cubs stay with their mothers for about two years, by which stage they have joined the pride's hunting trips. This collaborative behaviour probably stems from the close genetic relatedness among a pride’s females (each sharing c. one-seventh of their genes with pride mates, each lion is enhancing her own genes’ success by helping raise her sister’s offspring. Conflict with humans is one of the greatest threats they face. Photo Essay By Nathan Myhrvold [7.31.07] "One of the focal points, if you pardon the pun, of my recent trip to Botswana was lions, Africa's magnificent predators." lion cubs bloody: Lions are the only truly social cat, living in groups called prides. After one to two years of nomadic life these young males drive out the resident males of a pride and take over the females. What happens to the male cubs that are born? One of my favorite info tidbits is the number of matings the lions actually go through. African lions are revered the world over, but their population has shrunk in half over the past 25 years. WARNING: Some of the photos are a bit gory, and one shows explicit lion sex. Therefore young cubs would suffer in competition against cubs over 3 months old. Do they go off on their own? This is different than matriarchal, pack-hunting apex predators like gray wolves (Canis lupus) who have a definitive alpha female. Male lions will however protect cubs from danger. Ah Lion reproduction, very fascinating topic. There's only one male lion (Simba besides Mufasa and Scar) when the rest are all female lions. When male lions take over a pride, it is usually a group of brothers (2 to 3) and in order to ensure the brothers dont kill each others kids, the female lions procreate with each of them hundreds of times in order to mask who is actually the father. When do the cubs start hunting by themselves? The Mapogo lion coalition was a former band of male South African lions that controlled the Sabi Sand region in Kruger National Park.The coalition became infamous for their sheer power and strength in taking over and dominating an area of approximately 70,000 ha (170,000 acres). Female lions in a pride are almost always related and don’t exhibit any social dominance over one another -- no female lion is the leader. LIONS: AFRICA'S MAGNIFICENT PREDATORS.

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