Cowardly Lion

girls, Dani and Jaimie, and a lion. One day, Dani found a lion and wanted to try to trick Jaimie into thinking that she had found a cheetah. Dani took the lion, and she shaved the fur from around his neck and coloured the lion yellow and put solid black spots all around his muscular body. When Dani was done, she called Jaimie over from washing dishes to tell her that she had found a cheetah. “Dani, I don’t think that’s a cheetah,” answered Jaimie. “I think that’s a lion, not a cheetah!”…

The gestation period for a giraffe is 457 days, which is about 15 months. Generally, only a single baby is born. Calves can stand up and walk in an hour. About 50% of all giraffe calves do not survive their first year. Calves are usually attacked by lions, hyenas, leopards and african wild dogs and are killed in their first few months. Both male and females have two distinct hair covered horns. Males use their horns to fight other males. When fighting, male giraffes will push and shove against…

animals that are territorial and they have certain advantages for doing so. In the article Group territoriality and the benefits of sociality in the African lion, Panthera leo by Anna Mosser the reason lions live in prides of various sizes and have territories of varying sizes were researched. The authors wanted to know what factors lead the African lions to living in prides and what benefits there are. Yet about one third of the females will disperse to start new prides. Also males live alone…

Striding lion from Near East, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Iraq. Neo-Babylonian Period, 604-561 BCE. The striding lion with an open mouth was lined the Processional Way to the Temple of Marduk from Ishtar Gate at Babylon. The size is 41 3/4 in. by 91 5/16 in. Glazed bricks. The striding lion is a symbol of Ishtar, the goddess of Love and War. All 120 lions were protecters of Babylon and at the same time were leading the way from Ishtar Gate to the Marduk Temple. Neo-Babylonian used animals as symbols…

What is a Siberian Tiger? What does it eat? Why is it endangered? These questions will be answered in this research paper. The purpose of this research paper is to answer these questions. What is a Siberian Tiger, what do Siberian Tigers eat, and why Siberian Tigers are endangered will be addressed in this paper. What are Siberian Tigers? Siberian Tigers are the largest tigers in the world. They live up to fifteen to twenty years. Siberian Tigers can weigh up to seven hundred pounds!…

The Giraffe is a large mammal that lives all around africa. They are known for their very long neck and scattered patches of darker hair. They are light brown with large patches of dark colored hair. Giraffes have many natural predators like lions, and other predators. They eat acacia leaves that they can reach with their 6 foot neck. With the 6 foot neck included male Giraffes can't get up to 20 feet tall! Females can get to 15 feet tall. Their lifespan is 25 years in the wild. They are also…

distinctive white coat. The common name is white tiger because of its coloration, however it is in the same subspecies as the bengal tiger. The scientific name is Panthera tigris tigris. The genus Panthera includes four species of animals, the tiger, the lion, jaguar, and the leopard, all of which have the ability to roar. The white tigers’s full classification is as follows: Domain: Eukarya; Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Carnivora; Family: Felidae; Genus:…

Shasta, the main character in C.S Lewis’s The Horse and His Boy, lived a hard and unfair life. A childhood spent in slavery, a horrific trek across a desert to save a country he knows nothing about, getting chased by lions, and getting lost in foggy mountains. Where was Aslan in the midst of all this? Actually, a numerous amount of people’s faith rely on the answer to a very similar question: Where is God during troublesome times? Does He not care about you enough to save you? These are the same…

The Lion King was set in the African savannah, where the food chains were vast. The king of the “pride lands” was Mufassa. He was the head lion of the pride of mostly female lionesses. Mufassa’s brother, Scar was greedy and selfish. The pack lived on pride rock, a habitat that provided shelter and way for the exponential growth of the population of lions. At the beginning of the movie, Sarabi bore a child for Mufasa and named him Simba. Simba was next in line in the hierarchy of ancestor lions.…

In the article “All’s Not Well in Land of ‘The Lion King’” the author, Margaret Lazarus, talks about her opinion and her summary of the movie “The Lion King.” Lazarus talks about her experience of “The Lion King and how disappointed she was in the movie. Lazarus and her kids though they were going to see an innocent movie about animals in the wild. But after watching the movie she believed that the movie stereotyped different kinds of people. She believed that it stereotyped against ghettos,…