Male Lion Coalitions

Lions are the true social cats in the entire family of cats. Home territory of lions 

size and social group size vary with habitat suitability and prey abundance. 

They generally shows the traits of a selfish behavior. They generally form 

large 

groups in moist grasslands and smaller groups in dry bushes. It has been 

noticed that the Lion cub generally gets separated from their group at the age 

of approximately 2 years. There are both benefits and disadvantages for this 

behavioral trait. The main cost which they have to pay is that, at the age of 2 

they are the easy targets to big predators in the wild jungle and can risk their 

lives to them. However there are certain benefits in this behavioral trait as 

getting separated at this age gives then opportunity to explore and understand 

the wild jungle in a much better way. They learn to hunt and live in the jungle 

independently at a very small age itself. This behavior makes them a better 

predator as they ages. This males enter in the nomadic phase until they are 

large enough to challenge a dominant male at the age of five-six years of age 

for the control of a pride. From the perspective of future generations, this 

behavior had always helped the Lions to evolve with better hunting and 

survival skills in the wild.