Fecal examinations for internal parasites should be done twice a year. Veterinary care for a captive lionĪ lion needs annual vaccinations for feline panleukopenia, rhinotracheitis, and calicivirus. Bones should be offered once to twice a week. You can feed just muscle meat and supplement the diet with some whole carcasses or commercially available carnivore supplements. Whole animal carcasses is the best complete diet. Another item to include in the cage is a large log for them to use as a scratching post. the lion will enjoy sleeping and resting on these. You should provide a raised platform or ledges.
The shift cage is a place you can close the lion into so you can clean the cage safely. The cage is to include a smaller shift cage that is 8 ft by 8 ft. If you are housing more than 1 lion, the cage should be 50% larger for each additional lion. The cage is to be made out of a heavy gage wire. If you have a top on the cage, it can be 10 ft high. The sides need to be at least 16 ft high if no top is on the cage. Prehistoric lion species are American lion (Panthera leo atrox), European Cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea) and the Early Middle Pleistocene European cave lion (Panthera leo fossilis) Housing for a lion in captivityĪ lion should have a cage that is at least 20 ft wide by 15 ft deep. They are the African lion West Africa lion (Panthera leo senegalensis), East Africa lion (Panthera leo nubica), Northeast Congo lion (Panthera leo azandica), Southwest Africa lion (Panthera leo bleyenberghi), Southeast Africa lion (Panthera leo krugeri), Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica), and 2 extinct ones are the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) that was last seen in the 1920’s and the Cape lion (Panthera leo melanochaitus) that was last seen in the 1860’s. There is documentation of these hybrid happening in the wild but the numbers are low.Ĩ subspecies of lions are recognized today. The leopon is slightly larger than a leopard. This is a hybrid of a male leopard bred into a female lion. Another hybrid that is uncommon is the Leopon. The tiglon is a smaller cat than the lion or tiger. A Tiglon is a male tiger bred to a female lion. They can grow to about 11 feet in length. The liger is the largest cat in the world. A Liger is a male lion bred to a female tiger. In captivity, lions will breed with other species of cats. If a male takes over a new pride, he may kill all the cubs from the old male. The male lions do not help in raising the cubs. Cub mortality rate is 80% will not make it to the age of 2 years old. AT which time, their mother is pregnant again and the young males will be driven out by the dominant male and the young females may stay with the pride. But they will still stay with their mother for at least 2 years. The cub will start killing small prey when it is about 15 months old. But they do not have the adult teeth to be able to tear meat. The cubs do depend on their mother for food until they start hunting on their own at about 11 months.
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This starts their learning process on how to hunt. At about 6 weeks, the cubs will leave the den and accompany their mother on hunts. They will exclusively live off of their mother's milk for 2 months and then will start eating the prey that their mother kills. The gestation period is about 110 days and the lioness will give birth to 3-4 cubs. The pride size will range from 3-30 individuals.Ī lion will mature at about 2 years old. Lions will live in a group called a pride.