Off Public View Lion are inside due to tree work in habitat on August 13th.
All the lions will have access to their indoor habitats, when the temperatures feel like 95 degrees or above.
Scientific Name: Panthera leo
Range: Many African countries and India
Habitat: Forest, savanna, shrubland, grasslands, desert
Food: Large mammals, birds, rodents
Life Span: 15-30 years
The main threats to lions is indiscriminate killing (primarily as a result of retaliatory or pre-emptive killing to protect human life and livestock) and prey base depletion.
Lions are one of the only cats that live in social groups called prides. A pride usually consists of 1 to 7 males, a group of upwards of 30 related females and their offspring, and a few juvenile males.