I did not take the photo and I do not claim it as my property.
Alrighty! So now we've had enough of the male lions, let's start with the females.
Although some times a female lion lives alone but she is usually in a group called a "Pride" (as I have mentioned earlier already.) surrounded by blood related female family members such as sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, daughters and nieces. The only males that can stay in the pride are the male lion cubs and the adult male lion (Or the male lions, depending on the size of the pride.).
There are average of 15 lions in a pride, including the cubs, although sometimes it could double the family members if the hunt and rain are plentiful, but this large numbers of family, every lioness needs to hunt for almost everyday before everyone goes hungry. When drought comes and push comes to shove, it is always the young male lions (not cubs though.) go hungry or thirsty.
Lionesses hunt in stealth, camouflage and stalking, they won't attack within 30 meters between themselves and the prey. When occasionally meeting up a large difficulty hunt, the males would show up and help out.
When mating season arrives, a male lion and female lioness would stay together closely for several days and can mate from 20 to 40 times per day. That's a lot of sex! But that's how the lioness gets pregnant, they need be stimulant to ovulate, that's also the reason why the tip of a male lion's penis has spikes and it can hurt the females when pulling out, and that cause the scene of the female roars and scratches the male on the face.
After birth of the cubs, the mother often changes dens to prevent other predators from attacking and killing them. The cubs are born blind and won't start seeing after a week.
The lions communicate through mainly on smell and touch, but sound can also help, too.
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