female lions
Female Lions Are Democratic in Breeding, Study Finds. Motherhood is an equal-opportunity employer for female lions. A long-term study of lions in Africa shows that the females living among a group of lions consistently produce similar numbers of surviving offspring and raise them collectively. Printer Friendly. Email to a Friend.
No, Leonora... how females grow manes and develop a deeper roar like males to scare off rivals. With its bushy mane and menacing glare, it looks like the most fearsome of lions. But the creature prowling the African plains is in fact a lioness, sporting a rather unusual evolutionary tick. Scientists have discovered that a small number of female lions have begun to grow the shaggy manes as a ploy to fool invading prides into thinking they are males.