the lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a carnivorous mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of the genus Panthera. Males exceptionally large, reaching 250 kg in weight, [3] making it the second largest living feline after the tiger. Wild lions live in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with a critically endangered population in northwest India, having disappeared from North Africa, Middle East and western Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, large terrestrial mammals, the lion was the most widespread after humans. The distribution covered most of Africa, much of Eurasia, from western Europe to India, and America from the Yukon River to Peru.