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Lions Decoded: Their Pride, Mane, and ROAR

Lions Decoded: Their Pride, Mane, and ROAR

O'Farrill, Santiago
Books, Decoded

Paperback

Series: Animals: Decoded

Other AnimalsZoology

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ISBN13: 9798186200925
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A lion's roar carries eight kilometres across open ground, and it ends most fights before a single claw is drawn. The lion rules by information as much as by muscle, and that is the animal most people have never actually met.

Lions Decoded takes apart the creature behind the postcard. The male dozing while the lionesses hunt is doing the pride's most dangerous job: holding a wall of territory that keeps every cub alive. The day he loses it, an incoming coalition kills those cubs within weeks. His dark mane works as a billboard, deepening with testosterone that a weaker male's body could never sustain. Even the hunt is engineering, a problem of closing the last thirty metres before the sprint burns out.

The book follows the whole system: a female core that owns the land and hands its map from mother to daughter, the coordinated kills, the language of roars and scent and tail signals, and the cold arithmetic of a pride takeover.

Then it turns to the harder story. Lion numbers have crashed from around 200,000 to fewer than 25,000 in a single century, and what comes next is being decided right now, in the villages on the edge of the parks.

Meet the lion you only thought you knew.

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