The rough life of a male lion

In the vast African savannah, the lion group is one of the most eye-catching beasts, about the lion, in fact, there is a lot of controversy in the market, among which the difference between it and the typical cat is often taken out of the point. In addition, there are lions' social attributes and ways of living, which are of great interest to wildlife fans, such as male lions. The life it has experienced, in the entire cat family, can be called "legendary", today to trace the life of the male lion, its extraordinary, from birth is doomed.

The male lion has to go through several tribulations in his life to become the king of a hundred beasts, but everything must start from the pregnancy of the lioness. Due to the survival pattern of lions, most of the female lions in the entire lion group are in estrus, pregnant and even giving birth at the same time. When the lioness is about to be born, she will leave the lion group, choose a "secluded place", and then slowly wait for the child to be born, at this stage, the lioness is very sensitive, even the sisters of the lion group will not believe it, in order to ensure that the cubs are not harmed.

When the cubs have been able to play completely freely, and have a certain cognitive ability, the female lion will return to the lion group with the cubs, because most of the female lions have the same date of childbirth, when the female lions return with the cubs one after another, it is the most prosperous time in a lion group, there are several adult individuals, there is a group of young individuals, and this stage is also the happiest time for the little lions, under the protection of the mother, they thrive, although the lion king in the lion group is not welcome to the little male lion, But at this time they are not threatening, so they will not be bitten.

Of course, all this premise is that the entire lion group is not occupied by other male lions, if the lion group is dominated by other wandering male lions at this stage, then the young lions of the entire lion group may be finished, which is the first ordeal that the male lion will experience in his life. The estrus period of female lions is regular, when a child is brought to 2 or 3 years old, they will be in heat, but if the baby lion dies at this time, then the female lion will soon enter the estrus period. Therefore, when a new male lion enters the lion group, it will bite all the cubs, let the female lion be in heat for a short time, and then mate and give birth to her own cubs.

If the baby male lion is lucky, during the time of its growth, there is no invasion of other male lions, then they can grow up to about 3 years old before being forced to leave the lion group. Of course, this age is not absolute, because some "smart" little male lions will hide their strength, and when facing the lion king, they will behave obediently enough, so that they can stay in the lion group for a longer period of time, but most of them leave the lion group around the age of 3. Leaving his own race and entering the ranks of wandering male lions is the second ordeal that male lions have to go through.

In the wandering years, the male lion has to face all kinds of threats alone, such as hyenas, the expulsion of other lion groups, etc., and the male lions at this stage are still in a sub-adult state, and they do not have enough strength to invade other lion groups, so they live very bitterly, and even many male lions die at this stage and do not live to adulthood. But once they survive this age, they can transform into the king of the hundred beasts, become the leader of a lion group, and enjoy the supreme priority of the lion group to eat and mate, which is the goal of the male lions in their lives.

In the wandering years, in order to survive, most male lions will choose to form alliances, and the aforementioned lion survival mode is to create good innate conditions for wandering male lions. When the small male lions of the same group of lions are driven out, these relatives and cousins will form an alliance, with the largest and strongest male lion as the leader, taking them to hunt and grow together. Of course, there are also lions who only have one male lion to be driven out, at this time it has no brothers, but it will also choose to join other male lion alliances, or find other male lions who are "sick with the same disease" to form an alliance.

Many people used to think that male lions were fighting alone, but in fact, wandering male lions wanted to enter a lion group, most of them were group battles, and it was a very difficult thing for a single male lion to take power in the hands of other lion kings. When the Wandering Lion Alliance enters a certain lion group, the leader of the alliance will become the lion king of the lion group, because of the imbalance in the distribution of power between the male lion, such as the leader's exclusive mating power, or only a little to other brothers, so this is the most beautiful time in his life.

But in addition to mating rights, the lion alliance can be said to be very good in other aspects, and it is typical to share the difficulties. When the lions are threatened, they never let only one male lion fight alone, but together, they know that if the brothers die, then it will be "cold lips and teeth", and one male lion cannot defend the entire lion group. Other male lions, even in the face of unfair distribution of rights, will not complain, because in their cognition, the brothers also have their own genes, fully support the brothers to reproduce, and their genes can continue.

The last ordeal of the male lion's life comes from the endless "defense war" after entering the lion group, just as the so-called "Yangtze River back wave pushes the front wave", a group of wandering male lions will continue to impact their lion group, in the later defense war, there will be wandering male lions to run away, but eventually will be defeated by other alliances, just like the famous "Bad Boy League", the final fate is to be replaced by other male lions. The male lion's life is legendary, and most of the time they go through battles, from "sweeping the floor" to becoming the king of a generation, they spend their lives to achieve this goal.