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World Lion Day: 9 things you never knew about these iconic big cats
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breakingnews.ieOften nicknamed ‘kings of the jungle’, despite living almost entirely in desert and grassland, lions are about as iconic as animals get – and from Aslan to Simba, they’ve dominated pop culture for years.
They’re also endangered, and estimates now put the wild lion population at around 23,000. To mark World Lion Day, here’s a few things you may not have known about one of the world best-loved creatures… 1.
Lions are really, really loud Unlike their fellow felines, lions have flat, square vocal chords that allow them to let out louder sounds than almost anything else in the animal kingdom.
At one metre, a lion’s roar tips the scales at roughly 114 decibels – that’s louder than most rock concerts, and several varieties of jet engine. 2.
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