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__**Physical Description:**__
The have a tawny coat with a long tuffed tail. Male lions have a large mane of darker colored fur surrounding its head and neck.Lions are the only cats that have this obvious difference between the males and the females.

__**Habitat:** __
Lions are found in savannas, grasslands, dense bush and woodlands. Today, only a small population of lions lives in India. Most lions can be found in Africa, but their numbers are becoming smaller because of the loss of habitat.  **__Food:__** Lions are carnivores, which means they live on meat. Their prey Slide 5 consists mainly of large mammals such as wildebeest, impalas, zebras, buffalo, and warthogs in Africa and nilgai, wild boar, and several deer species in India. Mice, lizards, tortoises, warthogs, antelopes and even crocodiles also form part of a lion's diet.

__**Family Group:**__
Lions live in a social group called a pride.The average pride consists of about 15 individuals, including five to 10 females with their young and two or three territorial males that are usually brothers or pride mates. Baby lions are called cubs. Cubs are born after 3 1/2 months. lions become fully grown between 5 and 6 years. Lions do not have a den where they live for a long time. The mother moves around with her cubs.

__**Classification:**__
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae.  
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