The Senegal Lion
Title: The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Eduard, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals
Date 1895
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_animals_of_the_world._Brehm%27s_life_of_animals;_(1895)_(20585847988).jpg
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several subspecies in Africa. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in India (where an endangered remnant population resides in Gir Forest National Park). |