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Wolflover224:
Hello everyone! Ashyak here with another tutorial! This time, instead of rats and mice or dragons, I'll be teaching you how to roleplay lions correctly!

With the abundance of lions around the game, you would be surprised on how little known their behaviors actually are. Today, I'll be changing that!



Lions are the only social big cat and the only cat known to form groups! Lion prides are usually lead by one or two males and are followed by the abundance of females. I'll be showing you the pros and cons of being a lion of each sex and I'll dive in to more touchier topics such as the subject of infanticide within prides and the general truth about color morphs and hybridilazation.
PROS OF BEING A MALE LION
* You get to be the leader.
* You might share the pride with your brother!
* You're the most powerful!
* You get to be lazy and sleep all day. (my dream xD)
* You have the loudest roar.
* If you're looking for a pride, you get to band up with other loner males and become a gang known as a bachelor!
* You get aallll the girls!  8)
* You fight other males who may take over your pride!
* You get the first bite of the kill! Yum!CONS OF BEING A MALE LION
* You risk losing your pride if you're old.
* You either leave or you get kicked out if you've reached /maturity./
* You can't mate with anymore females once you've already done your share! (Simba that's your cOUSIN)
* You don't do as much caring for the cubs as the females do. (is this a pro or a con?)PROS OF BEING A FEMALE LION
* You can stay in the pride until you become in heat, which is when you are not kicked out, but you leave the pride yourself!
* You can care for the kids. Old or don't have cubs? Congratulations, you're a nanny!
* You're the most aggressive and you do the most activity, like hunting.
* It might not seem like it, but without lionesses, the pride would fall flat on its face!CONS OF BEING A FEMALE LION
* You don't eat first.
* If another male takes over your pride and you are unlucky enough to be pregnant or already have cubs, they will immediately be killed by the new male! If you're already pregnant, the new male waits for you to give birth and will then kill those cubs before mating with you to ensure his cubs will be the strongest! Don't get too attached.
* Speaking of that, if you do decide to leave your pride to protect your cubs, you and your cubs have very little chance of surviving. What'd I say about not getting too attached?
* As soon as you're in heat, you'll probably need to leave the pride. That is if the male is /blood related/ to you, and if he isn't, he'll be your new mate.
* Sorry, but you don't get to rule the pride! You may do the most work, but the male lion is always on top.And now we get to the diet!
Lions are carnivores, meaning that meat makes up most of their diet. Despite this, some lions have been recording munching on a /small/ amount of plant matter! However, this is extremely unhealthy and is only recommended if you have nothing to eat. You usually get this from your kill though, so don't worry about accidentally ingesting a thorn bush.
Lions mainly eat zebra and gazelle, but they can eat larger prey such as water buffalo.
Lone males will usually scavenge if they don't have another with them, and will consume a larger amount of plants /themselves/ than lions in a pride. (Though, as I said, it isn't recommended.) Male lions generally don't hunt because they need to save their strength juuust in case a rogue male struts in acting like he's the boss. That isn't to say that male lions /in a pride/ cannot hunt; they just don't need to.
Note to everybody, I don't want to hear about your lion "taking down an elephant or giraffe because they're so powerful wOw" because they DON'T. Let's just lay that flat out there. Lions /almost/ never try to attack adult giraffes because one kick can send them flying 30 feet and will KILL THEM. That doesn't mean they can't, though. Elephants are only killed if its a lone elephant and if that elephant is young, sick, or dying.

HYBRIDS AND COLOR MORPHS
Now here's where things get touchy and disturbing. I will be hiding this because, well, its graphic to say the least.
I won't get highly technical into how things are done because that is /too disturbing and waayy innapropriate for a forum little kids are peering at,/ but I will get into the basics. And the basics are disturbing enough as is.
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G4RG0YLE:
When you talk about hiding text, I think you mean a spoiler?

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Good job on this thread so far, by the way!

FlyingGrass:

--- Quote from: Wolflover224 on May 31, 2017, 04:31:04 pm ---

* You don't do as much caring for the cubs as the females do. (is this a pro or a con?)


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That depends on how hard the cubs are to care for.

That is a pro if you don't like taking care of cubs.
But it's a con if you want to look after the cubs.

Chipz:
Absolutely stunning work here! I really love how much thought you've put into it!

I hope you don't mind me being annoying fixing up a few facts here though, I am currently studying about big cats;

-Lion prides can have 0-3 males {there can be more but problems will arrise}

-All females are related in some form, it is very rare for prides to adopt lionesses

-Prides can be lead by a lioness if there are no males within the pride but most tend not to.

- A lioness will not HAVE to leave the pride when in heat as they have a male already in the pride. The only exception is if the male and lioness are blood related.

-Males aren't forced out of a pride but instead leave when the become 'mature'.

-bachelor {Not coalition} groups are more often then not brothers that are too weak to fight/fend off other males.

-A male lion can mate with all the lionesses that are not blood related {although it isn't rare to see} as much as they want as long as they are in heat and he is the leader, this is so they can create as much offspring that holds their genes.

-Male lions are a lot more powerful due to muscle mass, lionesses are more agressive.

-Females and cubs do not completely rely on males to protect them and can easily survive without one, the only threat is males trying to take over the pride and yes, killing the cubs

-Lions like most big cats CANNOT eat vegetation, they are not carnivorous but obligate carnivores which means they cannot digest plants and can fall very ill if they eat vegetation.

-The main reason that male lions don't hunt is not because his mane which can actually help them but because he is the protector of the pride, the one who has to stay fit ready for a fight.

-Lions actually DO kill giraffes, more often then not babies but can still take down a full grown giraffe if need be. The Elephant is true, they will only take one down if it is alone as a elephant heard will easily kill lions.

Azurain:
Wonderful job on this! Not only is it a good way to learn how to rp lions, it's also a wonderful biology lesson! Thanks for making and sharing this!

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