The lion is one of the most famous cats, and it is also the cat family that people are most often talking about. However, many people still have many misunderstandings about lions. How much do you know about the knowledge about the lion?

The lion not only exists in Africa but also has a lion in Asia. In Gil Forest National Park in India, there are more than 300 Asian lions now. In 1907, there were only 13 Asian lions due to human capture.

Later, people caught these 13 lions and raised them artificially in Gill Forest National Park.

Although the lion is one of the strongest predators in Africa, the speed of the lion is actually not fast. Their average running speed is less than 50 kilometers per hour.

Although occasionally it can reach the speed of 80 kilometers per hour, it can't persist for too long. Therefore, they either squat by the river and wait for the prey to appear, or ambush behind the shrub, and then attack until it is enough to get close to the prey.

Generally speaking, the lion acts at night. After hunting, they only take an hour to eat. In addition, their main living content is sleeping. A lion can sleep for 16-20 hours a day, and sometimes even sleep for 24 hours.

Since the lion starts at night, it is natural to hunt at the night. Therefore, night vision ability is essential for lions. They are 6 times more sensitive to light. This allows them to have excellent vision in the night environment. Even so, the success rate of lion hunting is only about half.

The lion is a large cat that is second only to the tiger and is the only species in the family that maintains the ecology of the group. So why does the lion choose group living?

In fact, the success rate of hunting is not different regardless of whether it is separate or collective. It is thought that lions choose to live in groups so that they can delineate the most favorable places to roost and thus have access to sufficient water and food throughout the year.

The lioness in the lion group is basically stable, and they generally stay in the same lion group from birth to death. But the same male lion usually only stays for two years in a lion group. It is either driven away by young and powerful males or leaving home to find a new family.

Even if the new lion is fortunate to defeat the lion king, it does not mean that it has obtained the dominance of the lion group. The new male lion must also be recognized by the lioness in the group in order to be the new lion king. Therefore, the final decision is still in the hands of the lioness.

The main criteria for the lion's evaluation of the lions are of course appearance. Lions with fluffy manes are often the most popular. The mane can not only play a role in protecting the key part of the body the throat but also the color of the mane is a sign that shows the strong degree of a lion.