Visit The Uganda’s Savannah Parks and See The King Of The Jungle in Their Habitats; the lions is a wild terrestrial animal called the King. The lion is the strong animals with the strong body, two fierce eyes, a big round head, and the majestic mane. The lions are predatory animals and eat after hunting their prey, they have strong claws and sharp teeth which help them during hunting for their food and they also eat fresh kills.
The lions have the strong compact body and the more powerful forelegs, sharp teeth, jaws which help them to pull down and kill the prey. The yellow-gold coats on their body and males have shaggy manes that ranges in color from blond to reddish-brown to black. The length and the color of mane on the male lion is likely to determined by the age, hormones and genetics.
The special of the lion has been the symbol of strength, power and ferocity, during your tour to Africa especially in Uganda the pearl of Africa with Mirama Hills Safaris, seeing this majestic creatures or species up-close is sure to be spine-tingling experience. The lions are the members of Big Five in Africa with the elephants, buffalos, rhinos and leopards they called big five because these are hardest animal to hunt on foot in Africa.
The lions hunting by raying un ambush, where by the female lions have the role of hunting while the male is to defend the territory and look after the cubs, so when the females kills the prey the call to eat first then the cubs and the remaining’s is for the females so that they have to look after the king.
Hunting lionesses have the specific role of hunting, where by some in Centre especially the adult females and others pray a role of wing, that one in the wing they chase the prey towards the Centre where skilled females are. Lions do most of their hunting at night as their eyes adapted to the dark and these give them a great advantages on their prey. Interestingly the lions also hunt in storms, the noise of rain and wind makes it very heard for the prey to see and hear them, which increases the chance of successful hunt.
The lions are only cats who roar together, this known cat species where individual roar together even the cub joins in with their mews, the calling or roar last with 40seconds. The male lions with the strong and hardest roar of which it goes up 8km away and the females goes up to 5km but they can roar at once.
As the herd of buffalos and herds of elephants also the group of lions is called the “Pride” often they do roaring together to mark their territories from others males and other pride and their roar can be heard from 5miles away.
Lions eats a lot, the male lion can up to 40kgs of meat in a single meal around a quarter of the weight of their body and the female lions eats 20kgs, their tongue have a sharp-pointed rasps which helps and used to scrape meat off the bones and the male lions weigh up to 190kg .
The lions since it refers to the king of the jungle, has a varied diet that primarily consists of the large herbivores, their preferred meals includes animals such as the zebras, buffalos, wildebeest, Uganda kobs, impalas Jacksons hartebeest, however some time they prey small animals like hares, oribi and birds they also on there menu. These predators are heavily remarkable on their hunting skills and coordinated effort of the pride to secure food as ensuring the survival and strength of their pride.
Like other creatures lions also sleep, where they sleep for almost 18hours to 20hours a day and used the 3hours to 4hours for hunting and eating. In the open areas lions can rest in shade of another one and even in the shade of parked vehicles, they also avoid heat stress by being active at night, resting on kopjes and up to the top of tress during hot hour of the day to cool breezes them selves like those in Queen Elizabeth national park where are mostly seen climbing trees in Ishasha sector.
Why the lions called the king of the jungle; it because of the hold a special place of apex predators ruling over their territories with unmatched strength and authority, this dominance cements their status as the king of the jungle. In the wild, their strategic and powerful physique hunting skills ensure they sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain.
Even the Bible says about the lion; in the first book in the Bible in the Genesis 49 says that, a lion is mentioned as a symbol of kingship and taking possession of land and kingdoms by force. Mirama Hills Safaris welcomes you to the pearl of Africa to visit our parks for incredible creature in parks like Kidepo valley, Murchison falls and Queen Elizabeth national parks for great trips in such for the king of the jungle in their habitat territories.
