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the lazy king who sleeps 20 hours while the lionesses do all the hunting
means a large, powerful wild cat native to Africa and parts of Asia, where males sport a distinctive mane and prides hunt cooperatively.
from From Latin 'leo' (genitive 'leonis'), which came from Greek 'leon' — and the Greeks likely borrowed it from somewhere further east, possibly a Semitic or even older Near Eastern source, since lions roamed those lands long before the word reached Europe. It padded into English through Old French 'lion', and the same root prowls through names like Leo and Leonard ('lion-bold').
- who hunts
- females do most killing, males eat first
- roar range
- audible up to five miles away
- only social cat
- prides are unique among wild felines
- cub danger
- new males often kill rivals' cubs
cecil the lion — african lion killed by dentist walter palmer in zimbabwe in 2015, sparked global outcry
barbary lion — extinct north african subspecies, last wild individual killed in algeria around 1893
tsavo man-eaters — two lions killed over 140 people in kenya during 1898 railroad construction