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Lionesses in a pride often have cubs around the same time as each other. This helps to keep them safe from predators — meat-eating animals, such as other lions and tigers — and also large animals such as elephant and buffalo. Lionesses can also control when they have cubs.
If there is not enough food around to feed a hungry mouth, a lioness will wait until there is before giving birth. It is good for them and helps them to grow quickly. At around two to three months, they begin to eat meat as well with their small milk teeth. Like humans, lions are born without teeth. They grow small ones when still very young, which are then replaced with adult teeth as they get older.
At six to seven months old, cubs stop drinking milk altogether. Cubs are full of life. It is important that they play with other youngsters and adults members of the pride, as this helps them to bond. Although this looks rough, to them it is just fun. Lions are not domesticated animals, even if you raise them in a domestic environment, they are still wild and will act on their wild instincts.
They are defenseless and many die before they are 2 years old. Their mothers must protect them until they are able to defend against predators and hunt for themselves. She gives them her milk and brings them food.
After six weeks, the mother leads her cubs to an animal that she has killed to give them their first taste of meat. They play together, which prepares them to hunt.
The cubs begin hunting on their own after 11 months. The lioness moves the cubs to a new den several times each month to avoid predators. She does not generally rejoin her pride until the cubs are 6 to 8 weeks old, allowing them to grow large enough to avoid being dominated at mealtime and starving.
If another lion becomes pride leader, he will kill cubs that are not his offspring, so their mother must protect them. The cubs are weaned off their mother's milk after they are 6 to 7 months old. They usually leave or are forced out of the pride to fend for themselves and find their own prides.
Their mother normally stays with her birth pride but some are forced to leave by a new pride leader. By 2 to 3 months old, the cubs weigh about 8 to 9 pounds and usually have all of their teeth.
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