Lion Cub : Everything You Need to Know !

Important Facts About Lion Cubs That You Should Know

In this article, we will review the facts about the lifecycle of lion cubs 🦁, how the lionesses take care and raise her cubs in the wild. Whether male lions are involved in this process, and how lion cubs are trained to become hunters themselves!

The Lion Cub Birth

The mother, the lioness, gives birth to between 1 and 6 cubs, after about 100 days of gestation. To give birth to one or more cubs, the lioness must wait about 3 months. They are blind and stay against the mother for the first 10 to 15 days of their life, the time they see clearly.

When Do Cubs Start Hunting on Their Own ?

The cub feeds on its mother or another lioness during 6 months, then it starts to eat meat. At 2 years old, it learns to hunt with the adults. The lion is a predatory animal. A prey is an animal that is hunted by another animal. Cubs, as I said before, do not hunt at birth, but when they are big they are very big hunters. The lions are always sleeping: it is always the lionesses that hunt.

How Does a Lioness Protect and Raise Her Cubs ?

Like all felines, the cub is very playful. At the age of 2 months, he joins his mother’s group. The other lionesses will also feed him, protect and take care of him, as if he was their baby.

Do Male Lions Raise Their Cubs ?

African male lions have no paternal role in raising or feeding their cubs. The lioness is also responsible for teaching them to hunt. Male lions do, however, protect the cubs from danger.

How Much Do Lion Cubs Sleep ?

The lion cub is a heavy sleeper, he sleeps 20 hours a day! In its shelter, it can be eaten by hyenas if its mother leaves it alone too long. The cub, like the lion, is a species threatened by the destruction of its habitat and by man, who hunts it, for its fur for example.

Where Do Lion Cubs Live ?

Lions and their cubs lives in Africa and on the Asian continent. Lions live in wooded and herbaceous savannahs. They occupied all of Africa and Asia Minor 100 years ago.

The Lion Cub Life Cycle

The lion cub weighs at least 1500 and 2000 grams (1.5 to 2 kg) at birth and is about 25 cm long. It is young until the age of 3-4 years. When it is small, its coat is short and ochre. When they are big, they are brown. When cubs are small, they do not have a mane even if they are males. The cub can become a lion or lioness.

How Cute Are Lion Cubs ?

Lion cubs are extremely cute 🐱. Watching a lion cub creates a warm feeling deep within the heart 👶🏼.

Anna, Umlani Bush Camp Manager Tells Us :

Here at Umlani Bush Camp, we are fortunate to have eight of these little fur balls to see on safari, and we have had some quality sightings of the cubs as they rough it in a riverbed near the den where the pride lions guard them.

It seems that all the lionesses in the pride gave birth at more or less the same time, so that the cubs are all the same age. The lionesses may then take turns caring for and nursing the cubs if one or more of the mothers are away hunting for an extended period. Although the cubs all look pretty much the same to us, it is amazing to see the bond between the different mothers and their cubs. They know exactly which cubs belong to which lioness even when lost in the wilderness.

Even at rest, these cubs are just extraordinarily cute. This makes writing about them very difficult, so why not let the pictures do all the talking instead? It will be an exciting time to watch all these cubs grow up to become important members of the pride one day, under the protection of both their pride and the two dominant males in the area. And with the abundance of prey 🦌 found in their territory, the future looks bright for these pups. We can’t wait to see them grow up.