LIONS - Food
By Doug
They hunt at night. They work together to get their food.To help them sneak up on prey, lions have rubbery pads on the bottom of their feet.They eat up to 65 pounds of meat in one meal. The extra strength of a male is sometimes needed to take down larger animals. Lions eat porcupines, fish, snakes, turtles, locust, termites, peanuts, fruit, rotten wood, zebras, antelope, gazelles and sometimes buffaloes or giraffes. Lions miss more prey than they catch.
Lions carry babies in their teeth.When lions are babies they can't roar.There are many females and their babies and one or more males in the pride.
A pride of lions has between four and 30 animals.
The male guards the territory.
Each pride has it's own territory.
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Males fight to become a leader of the pride.When they are teenagers they start to roar.A lion's roar can be heard five miles away.The lions in a pride are very friendly.Their hearing is so good they can hear prey that is more than a mile away.Older males get thrown out of the pride by being replaced by a younger male.The other lion can't be in the pride.(loser)