The lion is a large mammal. Lions are often called by "king of the jungle". Lions are mostly found in Africa and in a small reserve in India. They can live in cool areas, very hot areas or in thick forests. There were wild lions in Europe. Now, lions many live in zoos around the world. In the past they have lived in Northern India, Pakistan, and Arabia. Lions are also used as symbols representing courage. They appear in heraldry more often than any other animal. They are considered the king of beasts and the icon of courage and royalty.
Lions live for 10 to 14 years when they are in the wild. When they are captured, they can live longer than 20 years. In the wild, males don’t usually live longer than 10 years because wounds from fighting with other males make their lives shorter. They usually live in savanna and grassland, though they sometimes live in bushes and forests. Compared to other cats, lions are very social. A group of lions is called a pride. In a pride of lions, there are related females, their young, and a small number of adult males. Groups of female lions often hunt together.
Lions eat a lot of meat. Sometimes their teeth and claws of a lion can be colored differently from the rest of its body. Their tail is even described, if it is shown in an unusual way. A lion coward carries its tail between its hind legs.
Male lions usually weigh 159 to 250 kilograms. Lions don’t allow other carnivores to hunt in their territory. The female lions hunt the animals for the prides. At hunting lions are not built for speed like cheetas but are for stealth. They are ready to have young when she is 2-3 years old. Baby lions are called cubs. Cubs are born after 3 half months. Lions don’t have a home where they would live for a long time. The female lions conceals the cubs in thick bush, gullies or rocky outcrops. If the hiding place has been seen by other predators, then the lioness will move the cubs to a new hiding place. The cubs will be introduced to the pride about 6 weeks old. The cubs are very vulnerable when the lioness goes out to hunt and needs to leave the cubs behind. A litter of 2-6, usually 2-3, cubs are born and most of the time only 1-2 cubs survives until introduced to the pride where they have the protection of the whole pride.
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Africa is the world’s second largest and second most populous continent, with 53 different countries and home to more than a billion people. In some way it is the home to all people, as the origin of the human race. Africa is also home to more than 1100 mammal species, 2600 different bird species, 3000 fish species and probably way more than 100 000 insect species. One important reason for all this diversity is all the different climates you find in Africa, tropical areas with jungles and rain forests, dry deserts and even sub-arctic areas on the mountain peaks.
Africa is a place that full of people of all kinds, love and hate, beauty and horror, happiness and tragedy, rich and poor, full and empty, fast and slow, big and small, the colors of the rainbow, creatures of all categories, even uncategorized ones. African origin people have a black skin.
Natural resources are abundant in large parts of Africa, but due to tragic events like colonialism, war, dictators, diseases, exploitation, and bad leadership, the continent is still struggling with harsh poverty and underdevelopment. Africa is the most beautiful place, full of stunning scenery, colors, music, animals, happy people and a friendly pleasant vibe.
Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the largest landmass of the Earth. Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez, 163 km wide. Africa's largest country is Algeria, and its smallest country is the Seychelles.
The climate of Africa ranges from tropical to subarctic on its highest peaks. Its northern half is primarily desert or arid, while its central and southern areas contain both savanna plains and very dense jungle regions. Africa is the hottest continent on earth, drylands and deserts comprise 60% of the entire land surface.
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Athletic shoe is a generic name for the footwear primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but in recent years has come to be used for casual everyday activities.
They are also known as kicks in American English, trainers in British English and Hong Kong English, trabs in British English, daps in Welsh English, sandshoes, gym boots or joggers in Australian English, running shoes in American Englis, sneakers in American English, Australian English, and Indian English, tennis shoes in British English and American English, gym shoes, tennies, sports shoes, sneaks, tackies in South African English and Hiberno-English, rubber shoes in Philippine English.
The term athletic shoes is typically used for running in a marathon or half marathon, basketball, and tennis (amongst others) but tends to exclude shoes for sports played on grass such as association football and rugby football, which are generally known as "Studs," or in North America as cleats.
Attributes of an athletic shoe include a flexible sole, appropriate tread for the function ability. As the industry and design have expanded, the term athletic shoes are based more on the design of the bottom of the shoe than the aesthetics of the top of the shoe. Now designs include sandal, and elevated styles suitable for running, dancing and jumping. Many athletic shoes are made up to a very large size because of athletes with large feet.
There are a variety of specialized shoes designed for specific uses such as racing flat, track shoe, skate shoe, climbing shoe, approach shoe, wrestling shoe, football boot, dance shoe.
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