The Lion(Panthera leo) is a member of the family Felidae and one of four "big cats" in the genus
Panthera. With exceptional large males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after
the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in the wild in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with a critically endangered remnant
population in northwest India, having disappeared from North Africa, the Middle East and western Asia in historic times.
Until the late Pleistocene (about 10,000 years ago), the lion was the most widespread large land mammal beside humans.
They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from western Europe to India and the Bering land bridge and in the
Americas from Yukon to Peru.
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