NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In captivity lions often breed every year, but in the wild they usually breed no more than once in two years. Females are receptive to mating for three or four days within a widely variable reproductive cycle. During this time a pair generally mates every 20–30 minutes, with up to 50 copulations per 24 hours.

Detailed explanation-2: -A lion pride may include up to three males, a dozen females, and their young. All of a pride’s female lionesses and cubs are typically related. At around two to three years old, young males leave the pride and attempt to take over another male’s pride.

Detailed explanation-3: -A male lion can mate up to 100 times a day in a process that lasts only about 17 seconds. They can keep this up for around four to five days.

Detailed explanation-4: -The pair usually mates for less than a minute, but it does so about every 15 to 30 minutes over a period of four to five days. Before maturity at four years, young males are evicted from the group to live a nomadic existence, unwanted in any other lion territory.