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Meet a

Baby

Lion

Samantha S. Bell

Copyright 2016 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

Content Consultant: Dr. Mark C. Andersen, Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Ecology,
New Mexico State University

All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bell, Samantha.

Meet a baby lion / by Samantha Bell.

pages cm. (Lightning bolt books. Baby African animals)

Includes index.
Audience: Ages 5 to 8.
Audience: Grades K to grade 3.

ISBN 978-1-4677-7974-6 (lb : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4677-8367-5 (pb : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4677-8368-2 (eb pdf)

1. LionInfancyJuvenile literature. I. Title.

QL737.C23B449 2015
599.7571'39dc23

2015001943

Manufactured in the United States of America

1 BP 7/15/15

Table of Contents

At Home

in the Den

A mother lion rests in her hidden
den. She has just given birth to
two lion cubs. The cubs are blind
and need their mother.

A mother lion licks
her newborn cubs.

Newborn cubs
grow quickly.

Each newborn cub weighs about
pounds (1 kilogram). Thats as
much as four storybooks. The
cubs will grow to weigh up
to pounds (227 kg), or as
much as a small piano!

Lions have a litter of one
to six cubs at a time.

Thecubsaretanliketheirmother.

Cubs have dark
spots on their
heads and legs.

Male lions will
grow a mane as
they get bigger.

Also like their mother, cubs dont
have a bushy mane. Only adult
male lions have a mane.

The mother is part of a group
called a pride. There are twelve
to forty female lions in the
pride. They are mothers, aunts,
daughters, and sisters.

Most lions in a
pride are from
the same family.

Soon these cubs will
join the pride too.

Therearealsoonetothreemalelionsinthepride.

These males are
not related.

Part of
the Pride

The mother lions den may be a
cave or a group of bushes called
a thicket. She moves her cubs
from den to den.

Switching dens makes
it hard for predators
to find cubs.

A mother lion keeps
her cubs close by.

Mother lions need to be careful.
Hyenas, jackals, and leopards kill
baby lions. Eagles, snakes, and
buffalo do too.

Lion cubs grow fast. They open
their eyes during the first week.
By two weeks old, the cubs
can walk.

Cubs can run at
four weeks old.

Cubs join the
pride when they
are old enough.

When the cubs are about eight
weeks old, the mother lion brings
them to the pride.

Cubs nurse until they are
about nine months old.

Newborn cubs drink their
mothers milk. After the cubs
join the pride, other mother
lions also nurse them.

The baby lions play with other
cubs and adult lions. They stalk
and chase rocks. They pounce
on sticks. They are learning
how to hunt.

Cubs pounce on
rocks and logs!

Born
to Hunt

Lions eat any meat they can
find. They catch small animals
such as birds and reptiles.

Cubs sometimes eat
the prey their parents
hunted and caught.

They eat large animals such as
zebras, giraffes, and wildebeests.
They even eat animals that other
predators have killed.

Zebras are just
one of the
animals lions hunt.

Cubs learn to hunt
by watching the
adults catch prey.

The cubs start eating meat
when they are three months
old. When the cubs are eleven
months old, they are ready
to join the hunt. They follow
behind the adult lions and watch.

Lions hunt at night alone or
in groups. Usually the females
hunt, but sometimes the males
will help.

Male lions are stronger
than females and can
catch larger animals.

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