Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38407585-20191004055418/@comment-25028958-20191119031021

Lions4ever91 wrote: Second The new pride was protrayed and acting all like real life lions would do in the wild. This clearly could teach the young target group how those animals behave and look and sound like if they discover them in our real world environment.

There are so many things that the target group could learn about the animal species that were new and all true biological facts. Some examples to make you understand it better what I mean:

1 They sleep during the day and start hunting and patroling in the night.

2 They live in large prides, in which the strongest lion protects all the members.

3 Even though those lions are related they take care of each other's offspring and help to raise them into adulthood like grandmother Queen Janna did with Baliyo and Rani.

4 Your typical lion isn't only yellow fured with a brown or black mane. No, there exist many different sub-species that have other fur and mane color variations depending on where they live.

5 If male lions are old enough, they are kicked out of the pride because they may cause a threat to the current leader, the alpha male. So then they begin to travel, sometimes make alliances with other lions or lionesses and try to take over a new pride by either fighting the current alpha lion or founding their own pride by creating new offsprings. (Even though it's not shown, there is also the possibility that if lion males are old enough (2 years) they get killed by the alpha to prevent a take over from a younger lion.) The reason why this wasn't shown in the series is pretty obvious - too cruel -, but sadly in nature things work like this.

6 Female lions are the only members of a pride that stay within their birth pride until the rest of theirs lives, like Kiara and Nala did.

7 Many years ago, lions were even living in Europe, but poachers' greed for money made them go extinct. So there are no longer any traces to see that lions live there.

8 Today the lion population is slightly decreasing in Asia (including in India). Only a few animals remain living, only protected in a nature reservate forest (Gir Forest sancuary) where Indian and Asiatic lions are being fed and have a large amount of space to move and live in without humans endangering them any further.

9 Lion prides only consist of  8 to 20 members to form a family. (As seen with both Simba's pride and the Night Pride).

10 In many countries throughout the world the lion is a symbol for strength, discipline, courage, but also protectiveness. In China, Japan and Asia, lions were worshipped like gods, creating big stone statues of lions placed before buildings. There, those animals are known to be guardians of temples or shrines. Also, a religious significance can be discovered world-wide as the messiah is often protrayed as the 'Lion of Jerusalem' to save and protect all people. Mountain lions don't have manes.