African lions are nothing, if not magnificent beasts. In fact, this is why several civilizations have given them the title of “King of the Beasts” for thousands of years. We try to do lion justice in this short article by asking you the facts about lions that you might find interested. Some of these facts cover what lions eat, at what point in their lives their thunder roar, well known in the animal kingdom, and the amount of protein they get in their diet. The name of the lion is Pantheraleo, a carnivorous mammal of the phylum Chordate. The following size range attempts to cover both lioness (female lion) and male lion statistics. The head and body together range from about 4 1/2 feet to 6 1/2 feet. Including the tail, the size range goes from an additional 26 inches to nearly 40 inches. The average female lion tends to weigh a very strong weight of about 265 pounds. The average man, on the other hand, is much larger than 425 pounds of pure muscle and does not lose speed wh...