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Lions sought unsuccessfully to evade the biting flies by climbing trees or crawling into hyena burrows; many died or migrated and the local population dropped from 70 to 15 individuals. [181] A more recent outbreak in 2001 killed six lions. [182] Captive lions have been infected with canine distemper virus (CDV) since at least the mid-1970s. [183]
The lions did as they pleased on-set, so they also share writing and directing credits. [94] The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) is a movie set in 1898. It is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine-month period, during the construction of a railroad bridge across the Tsavo River, in what is now Kenya ...
Only male lions have manes, and the bigger the mane, the more attractive they are to females. Same with their roar; the louder they roar is a turn on to the females as well.
Inherited eyelash problems are common in some breeds of dogs as well as horses. Eyelashes are an uncommon but not unknown feature in birds. Hornbills have prominent eyelashes (vestigial feathers with no barbs), as do ostriches. Amongst the reptiles, only Eyelash vipers show a set of modified scales over the eyes which look much like eyelashes.
In sub-Saharan Africa, lions with weak manes were reported in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. Tsavo is a region of Kenya located at the crossing of the Uganda Railway over the Tsavo River, close to where it meets the Athi-Galana-Sabaki River. Tsavo male lions generally do not have a mane, though colouration and thickness vary.
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The tigon is a hybrid offspring of a male tiger (Panthera tigris) and a female lion, or lioness (Panthera leo). [1] They exhibit visible characteristics from both parents: they can have both spots from the mother (lions carry genes for spots – lion cubs are spotted and some adults retain faint markings) and stripes from the father.
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