Injury, teething, and disease can also carry off young cubs. Females will stay with the pride their entire lives, but males are ejected when they start to grow their manes, around two years of age. Thomson guides are leaders, experts, naturalists, researchers, and more. Born and bred in Tanzania, there are no better ambassa Read More. This sundowner recipe comes from our Thomson Safaris Boston office.
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Answers to these questions are provided by Dr. Craig Packer or his graduate students at the University of Minnesota. Female lions captures most of the mid-sized prey wildebeest, zebra, etc. A male can eat 43 kg in a day; a female may eat over 25 kg. But their average intake is about 8—9 kg per day. We are very careful that none of our work is in any way harmful to the lions. We mostly observe the lions from a distance of 10— meters, but we do occasionally immoblize individuals to remove snares, attach radio collars or collect blood samples.
Lions with radio collars do not suffer any effect on their survival or reproduction, and by radio tracking we are far more efficient in monitoring the population in times of drought or disease outbreaks. Blood samples from these lions have revealed the extent to which they are exposed to infectious diseases such as canine distemper that originated from domestic dogs in the surrounding villages.
These findings have led to improved veterinary services around the Serengeti. Females typically have litters of two or three cubs. Cubs are usually weaned by the age of eight months. Watch videos and learn more about manes. Several females are likely to be in heat at the same time. The pride leader, with first dibs on females in heat, might tire of them during their cycle; that's when the lesser males get an opportunity.
Lionesses are receptive to breeding only during their estrous cycles. Each estrus lasts between four and seven days, but the amount of time between cycles depends on the individual lioness.
Younger lionesses might go in and out of estrus with only a few days in between, while the interval might last for months and up to a year in older lionesses. The average interval is approximately two months. After a lioness bears young, she might not go into estrus for 20 months while raising her offspring.
Generally, the largest, strongest male lion rules his pride, but most male lions rule their prides for only a few years. The pride leader defends his females and offspring from attack by predators, such as hyenas.
As pride leaders age, younger, stronger males take their place. When a battle between males for pride rule takes place within the already established hierarchy, it might be fierce but not deadly. If a coalition of outside males tries to take over a pride, though, the outcome is usually different.
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