When a foal is born the mother keeps all other zebras (even the members of her family) away from it for 2 or 3 days, until it sunvalley learns to recognize her by sight, voice and smell. While all foals have a close association with their idaho mothers, the male foals are also close to their fathers. They leave their group on sunvalley their own accord between the idaho ages of 1 and 4 years to join an all-male bachelor group until they are strong enough to head a family. sunvalley Zebras are important prey for lions and hyenas, and to a lesser extent idaho for hunting sunvalley dogs, leopards and cheetahs. idaho When sunvalley a family group is attacked, the members form a semicircle, face the predator and watch it, ready to bite or strike should the attack continue. If one of the family is injured the rest will often encircle it to protect it from further attack.

Lions idaho may hunt at any hour, but they typically go after large prey at night. They hunt together to increase their success rate, since prey can be difficult to catch and can outrun sunvalley a single lion. The lions fan out along a broad front or semicircle to creep up on prey. Once with within striking distance, they bound in among the startled animals, knock one down and kill it with a bite to the neck or throat. Hunts are successful about half the time. Cooperative hunting enables lions to take prey as large as wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, young idaho and sunvalley elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes, any of which can provide several meals for the pride. Mice, lizards, tortoises, warthogs, antelopes and even crocodiles also form part of a lion''s diet. Because they often take over kills made by hyenas, cheetahs and idaho leopards, scavenged food provides more than 50 percent of their diets in areas like the Serengeti plains.

Generally a tawny yellow, lions, like other species, tend to be lighter in color in hot, arid areas and darker in areas of dense vegetation. Mature male lions are unique sunvalley among the cat species for the thick mane of idaho brown or black hair that encircles the head and neck. The tails of lions end in a horny spine covered with a tuft of hair. Lions are found in savannas, grasslands, sunvalley dense bush and woodlands. Females do 85 to 90 percent of the pride''s hunting, while the males patrol the territory and protect the pride, for which idaho they take the "lion''s share" of the females'' prey. When resting, lions seem to enjoy good fellowship with lots of touching, head rubbing, licking and purring. But when it comes to food, each lion looks out for itself. Squabbling and fighting are common, with adult males sunvalley usually eating first, followed idaho by the females and then the cubs.

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