Lions are the laziest of the big cats. They usually spend 16 to 20 hours a day sleeping and resting, devoting the remaining hours to hunting, courting or protecting their territory. They keep in contact with one another by roaring loud enough sun to be heard up to five miles away. The pride usually remains intact until the males are challenged and successfully driven away or killed by other males, who then take over. Not all lions live in prides. At maturity, young males leave the units of their valley birth and spend several years as nomads golf before they become strong enough to take over a pride of their own. Some never sun stop wandering and continue to follow migrating herds; but the nomadic life is much more difficult, with little time for resting or reproducing. Within the pride, the territorial males are the fathers of all the cubs. When a lioness is in heat, a male will join her, staying with her constantly.

The stripes on Grevy''s zebras are more numerous and narrow than those of the plains zebra and do not extend to the belly. In all zebra species, the stripes valley on the forequarters form a triangular golf pattern; Grevy''s have a similar pattern on the hindquarters, sun while others valley have a slanted or horizontal pattern. Burchell''s zebras inhabit golf savannas, from treeless grasslands to sun open woodlands; they sometimes occur valley in tens of thousands in migratory golf herds on the Serengeti plains. Grevy''s zebras are now mainly restricted to parts of northern Kenya. Although they are adapted to semi-arid conditions and sun require less water than other zebra species, these zebras compete with domestic livestock for water and have suffered heavy poaching for their valley meat and skins. Family groups are stable members maintaining golf strong bonds over many years. Mutual grooming, where zebras stand together and nibble the hair on each other''s neck and back, helps develop and preserve these bonds.

A shy creature that roams widely, the cheetah is not seen as easily as some other cats. Never numerous, cheetahs have become extinct in many areas, principally due to shrinking habitat, loss of species to prey upon, disease sun and valley and a high rate of cub mortality. In some areas 50 to 75 percent of all cheetah cubs die before 3 months. Zebras, horses and wild asses are all equids, long-lived animals that move quickly for their large size and have teeth built for grinding and cropping grass. golf Zebras have horse like bodies, but their manes are made of short, erect hair, their tails are tufted at the tip and their coats are striped. Three species of zebra still occur sun in Africa, two of valley which are found in East Africa. The most numerous and widespread species golf in the east is Burchell''s, also known as the common or plains zebra.

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