The lion is one of the most fierce (凶猛的) animals in the world. Lions can be1in Africa and India. Lions in Africa can live without water for about one month. Lions are also popular animals in the2Almost every zoo around the world has a few lions.
It is very3for people to tell male and female lions from each other. You can judge (判断) simply by their appearance. A male lion has mane(鬃毛) while female lions do not have. Male lions are4than female lions. A male lion usually weighs about 200 kilograms which is always heavier than a female lion. Both male and female lions have very5mouths. They can break the backs of other animals6. Lions feed on other animals and one lion usually kills between ten and twenty large animals each year for7.
It is unusual for lions to kill people. However, in 1898 two lions8and ate over one hundred people in Kenya before they were shot by a British man named P. J. Patterson. This9became the subject (主题) of a 1996 Hollywood movie called The Ghost and the Darkness. Now the Indian lions are endangered. It's really necessary for us to10the animals, or we won't see them again. Animals are our friends. It is our obligation to protect them.
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