Lions

Ohio History

African Lions

Reluctantly, we left the Rain Forest and headed into the main part of the Cleveland Zoo. The first animals we saw were the lions. They lay lazily on a log in the center of their pen, rising occasionally to stretch sleepily. No wonder - in the wild, lions sleep sixteen to twenty hours a day. The cats above are African lions, native to the southern part of Africa between the Sahara and Botswana. In the wild, they live in prides that can range in size from three to thirty animals, and they raise their young communally.