lion

     

The lion (Panthera leo) is a member of the family Feliae and one of four big cats in the genus Panthera. With exceptionally large males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with a critically endangered remnant population in northwest India, having disappeared from North Africa, the Middle East and western Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene (about 10,000 years ago), the lion was the most widespread large land mammal beside humans. They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from western Europe to India and, in the Americas, from the Yukon to Peru.

Trivia about lion

  • This animal is depicted on Great Britain's Victoria Cross
  • In Egyptian sculpture, a hieracosphinx has a hawk's head & this animal's body
  • An androsphinx has a human head, a criosphinx has a ram's & both usually have the body of this animal
  • "Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like" this king of beasts
  • Both the Greek and Egyptian Sphinxes had the body of this animal
  • Hercules is often depicted wearing this animal's skin; killing the Nemean one was quite a labor
  • A main predator of the adult gnu, it has a mane, too
  • This animal heard here is also called the king of the beasts
  • St. Gerasimus, like Androcles, is credited with befriending one of these by pulling a thorn from its paw
  • Animal depicted on the Victoria Cross
  • When this animal freed a mouse, the mouse later saved its life by gnawing through a rope
  • The animal featured on the electrum coin of Lydia, it got the world's coinage off to a roaring success
  • This animal on Saskatchewan's flag stands for Great Britain
  • The Old Testament talks about the jungle on the Jordan's banks & this animal roaring within
  • Echidna, who was half woman & half serpent, was the mother of this Nemean beast
  • Tarzan, lord of the jungle, encounters Numa, this royal animal of the jungle
  • The animal featured both in Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy" & "The Dream"
  • "Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of" this majestic animal
  • Tarzan can tell Numa, the male of this cat species, from Sabor, the female, by its thick mane
  • To confront someone defiantly, perhaps on his home turf, is to "beard" this animal "in his den"
  • Samson killed one of these with his bare hands
  • This one of the 12 signs is the subject of the first of the 12 labors of Hercules
  • Starting in the 1950s, one of these animals emerged from the NYC subway in TV ads for Dreyfus mutual funds
  • Leonine
  • The Book of Judges reports Samson's riddle concerning "A swarm of bees and honey in a carcase of" this
  • The puma is also called the mountain this
  • As Lowe is German for this animal, it sounds like Loews cinemas should only show MGM movies
  • Aslan:This majestic creature in Narnia
  • Great Britain is represented on Saskatchewan's official flag by this animal
  • Several proverbs mock the slothful man who won't leave his house for fear of being eaten by this animal
  • The Egyptian goddess Sekhmet had the head of one; the body went to the Sphinx
  • Echidna, who was half woman & half serpent, had many beastly children, including this Nemean beast
  • Nickname of Duke Henry, who fought Albert the Bear to control Saxony in the 1100s; only Ulrich the Tiger was missing
  • Simba
  • The hide of this fearsome beast of Nemea was so tough that no weapon could pierce it
  • A golden one of these animals is featured on the flag of Sri Lanka
  • Thoreau asks, so what if we're inferior to past thinkers? "A living dog is better than a dead" this beast
  • In a 1965 movie set in Africa, Clarence was a "cross-eyed" one of these
  • Its scientific name is Panthera leo
  • In books by C.S. Lewis, Aslan, one of these animals, created the world of Narnia
  • In Rousseau's "Sleeping Gypsy", a full moon hangs in the night sky while this animal catches the scent of the title figure