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Lion Pictures- African CatsA Photo Slide Show of African Lions, and LeopardPress Start to Run the Slide Show pictures©Fay Pearse Lions are the most social member of the big cats and are the only ones to live and hunt in family groups Lions can run at 58 km/h which is too slow to catch antelope in an open chase Attacks are seldom launched from more than 20 m away, mainly by stalking or ambush Pride males do not usually hunt, as their manes and large size make them more conspicuous and less succesful than lionesses. however they do help with big game kills To view a kill you have to be extremely lucky. The majority shown on TV are staged People nurtured on wild-life TV programmes tend to assume that every dead animal has been killed by a predator, but this is not always the case. Animals sometimes die of old age, while fighting with their own species or just as a result of accidents
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