African King
African Lions are very unique from all other big cats in that they live in a pride and are family oriented where as other big cats are mostly solitary except for mating and rearing the young. Loss of habitat has been the biggest reason for Lions to be put on the Endangered Species list. This African King has signed and numbered prints available from www.joettesgallery.com The original available framed 29×36 . Prints are 11×14 unframed but is available.
When all is right with the world there is no inbreeding in the pride, whereas with Cougars the inbreeding does occur. The African lioness will leave the pride for up to thirty months to care for her young male offspring and to protect him from the older males in the pride. All of the female lions in pride are related whereas the young males eventually leave the pride to start their own pride. This is what makes the African Lion a unique cat.
In the last seventy years, the African Lion population has decreased fifty percent. They are now only found in sub-Saharan Africa with a few Asian Lions found in India. Pesticides, poisoning by humans and over population of habitat has caused these big cats to decrease to a dangerously low number, plus with the lack of territory they are force to inbreed which is weakening the prides.
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