African Lion

African Lion
Game	Zoo Tycoon 2
Family	Big Cat
Status	Vulnerable
Diet	Carnivore
Habitat
Fame

To unlock the lion in challenge or campaign games, you must earn a 2-1/2-star zoo fame rating for your zoo.

Description

• The lion is one of the largest members of the cat family. The lion's size and strength have captured human imagination since ancient times, giving these animals the nickname king of beasts. Lions are also known for their mighty roar, a fearsome sound that can be heard by humans more than 8 km (5 mi) away.
• Lions once ranged over vast areas on many continents. Fossil evidence shows that until about 10,000 years ago, lions lived throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and into Asia as far as southern India and the island of Sri Lanka. They also lived in North America and northern South America. Since then, however, the lion's range has been shrinking steadily. Human hunters have killed countless numbers of lions as well as the hoofed mammals that lions eat. In many places, people have taken over the lion's habitats, which often are good places to farm and raise cattle. These habitats include grassy plains, savannahs, and dry woodlands but never thick forests or jungle. Today, lions are found in the wild in only two places on earth. About 100,000 lions survive in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Another 300 lions, called Asian lions, live in a reserve called the Gir National Park and Lion Sanctuary in northwest India. In both places, lions continue to be threatened by human activities. Thousands of lions also live in zoos and circuses around the world.

Fun Facts

• Lions are unusual among cats for their habit of living in groups. A pride consists of 2 to 12 adult females and their cubs. All of the females are related: sisters, mothers, aunts, and cousins.
• A lion's roar can be heard from a distance of 5 miles (8 km).
• Despite their immense strength, lions do not have an easy life in the wild. They suffer from parasites and disease, they get injured or even killed while hunting or fighting with each other, and they may starve when food is scarce.
• Lions spend about 20 hours a day just lying around.

Animals
Zoo Tycoon 2
Grizzly Bear • Polar Bear • American Beaver • Dromedary Camel • Cheetah • Chimpanzee Nile Crocodile • African Elephant • Greater Flamingo • Thomson's Gazelle • Gemsbok • Reticulated Giraffe Mountain Gorilla • Hippopotamus • Ibex • Jaguar • Red Kangaroo • Ring-Tailed Lemur • Snow Leopard Lion • Moose • Okapi • Ostrich • Giant Panda • Red Panda • Common Peafowl • Emperor Penguin Black Rhinoceros • Bengal Tiger • Common Zebra
Official Downloads
Addax • Asiatic Black Bear • Asian Elephant • Black Leopard • Musk Ox
Endangered Species
Giant Sable Antelope • Spectacled Bear • American Bison • Caribou • Fennec Fox • Crested Gibbon Przewalski's Wild Horse • Koala • Komodo Dragon • Spanish Lynx • Markhor • Orangutan Scimitar-Horned Oryx • Florida Panther • Javan Rhinoceros • Baird's Tapir • Galapagos Giant Tortoise African Wild Dog • Gray Wolf • Wolverine
African Adventure
Aardvark • Barbary Ape • Secretary Bird • Bongo • African Buffalo • Caracal • Gelada • Gerenuk Masai Giraffe • Pygmy Hippopotamus • Striped Hyena • Mandrill • Meerkat • Nile Monitor • Ratel White Rhinoceros • African Spurred Tortoise • Warthog • Wildebeest • Ethiopian Wolf
Dino Danger
Carnotaurus • Styracosaurus • Triceratops • Tyrannosaurus rex
Marine Mania
Beluga • Bottlenose Dolphin • West Indian Manatee • Blue Marlin • Narwhal • Sea Otter • Rockhopper Penguin Manta Ray • California Sea Lion • Blacktip Reef Shark • Goblin Shark • Scalloped Hammerhead Whale Shark • White Shark • Green Sea Turtle • Leatherback Sea Turtle • Pacific Walrus False Killer Whale • Orca • Short-Finned Pilot Whale
Extinct Animals
Ankylosaurus • Aurochs • Short-Faced Bear • Elephant Bird • Bluebuck • Giant Camel • Saber-Toothed Cat Bush-Antlered Deer • Deinonychus • Deinosuchus • Dimetrodon • Diprotodon • Dodo • Doedicurus Dwarf Scillian elephant • Gigantopithecus • Kentrosaurus• Cave Lion • American Mastodon • Killer Penguin Protarchaeopteryx • Quagga • Woolly Rhinoceros • Sivatherium • Giant Ground Sloth • Stegosaurus Stokesosaurus • Thylacine • Utahraptor • Velociraptor • Warrah • Giant Warthog