A lioness resting and while tourists a 4x4 photograph Orient Express them constantly in the vicinity of Camp Savute Elephant
A lioness resting and while tourists a 4x4 photograph Orient Express them constantly in the vicinity of Camp Savute Elephant Camp by Orient Express in Botswana in the Chobe National Park . The lion ( Panthera leo) is a carnivorous mammal of the Felidae family and one of the species of the genus Panthera. Some males , exceptionally large , weighing up to 250 kg , 3 making them the second -largest living cat after the tiger . Wild lions live in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with a critically endangered population in northwest India , having disappeared from North Africa , the Middle East and western Asia in historic times . Until the late Pleistocene , about 10 000 years ago , in large terrestrial mammals , the lion was the most widespread after humans. They were found in most of Africa , much of Eurasia from western Europe to India , and America, from the Yukon to southern Mexico . If they survive childhood difficulties , lionesses living in a secure habitat such as Kruger National Park can often reach the age of 12-14 years , whereas lions seldom live more than eight years. However, cases of lionesses are known to have lived twenty years in the wild . In captivity , both males and females can live over twenty years.
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