BABY LION PICTURES
Cute Baby Lion Pictures for your home
These baby lion pictures make for beautiful baby room decor or the perfect wall hanging in a child’s room, office, or home. Our pictures of baby lion cubs were taken during our expedition in India. These unique cute baby animal pictures are available for order in a variety of sizes, print material, and also framing options to fit perfectly anywhere in your home design.
The beauty and significance of art in our society have been growing over the years. It is often that artists are conveying that only art speaks. As well as creating for the greater cause. Artists want to give back to their communities and the world as a whole. How I Captured Black and White Baby Lion Pictures
Many wildlife photographers know how challenging baby lion photography can be, especially when the mother is around. It was early morning in western India when I set out to take lion photos. We were in a truck looking for them and I was very excited. One of the locals mentioned he had seen two lionesses with six cubs the day before.
Baby Lion Characteristics
These mothers have a lot to contest in their parenting. Most lionesses will have their first cubs when they are about 4 years old. They will typically leave the protection of their family to give birth alone and will hide their young for about 6 weeks. Being without the safety of pride is a huge risk to a new young mother. This is a risk she is willing to take to ensure the safety of her cubs. Her children, weighing in at only 2 to 4 pounds at birth, are completely dependent on their mother’s care.
How Climate Change Affects Baby Lions
The little cats in our cute baby lion images are facing major risks due to climate change. One major risk is drought. Leading to malnourished prey as a result. Which is already infested with ticks or illness, as a result when they eat them they also get infected. The ticks, it turns out, carry a blood parasite that rendered them less able to cope with the canine distemper virus. The combination of the two diseases killed many more than either disease commonly would acting on its own. These droughts which ultimately lead to deadly co-infection of them are predicted to become more commonplace as the climate warms.
Baby Lion Facts — Africa and Western India
A baby lion gestates for approximately 110 days and is born in a litter of between one and six babies. Although two to three cubs at a time are considered normal by the Predator Conservation Trust. Baby lion cubs are born blind and also helpless, away from their pride.
Shortly before the mother gives birth, she leaves the lion pride and finds a safe place to give birth. The mother and her baby lion stay in isolation for four to eight weeks or so.
Young baby lion cubs are vulnerable to various predators, including leopards, jackals, pythons, martial eagles, and also hyenas (as you may have seen in Disney’s classic movie The Lion King). The mother acts as a protector by finding the best hiding places to keep the cubs safe. One of my lion images, Invisible Connection, shows the mom looking over her cub. It’s a fine art photography image that many love and appreciate.
Lion Picture Gallery
African lions live in groups of between one and three males, along with several females and also their cubs. Male lions in India live apart from females and their cubs.
One of the lion cub facts is that even though they are known as “King of the Jungle,” they actually live in grasslands and plains. They don’t live in the jungle!
Dangers for Baby Lions
A baby lion gets the last pickings from a kill and does not begin to hunt for themselves until they reach one year of age. Due to threats from starvation, predators, and the alpha males, up to 80 percent of baby lions die within the first two years as a result. Our lion photos capture their preciousness.
Baby lions are very small during the first couple of weeks of their life. They’re born blind and aren’t able to open their eyes for 2 to 3 weeks. After they open their eyes, they don’t have a proper vision for about another week, making them very vulnerable. In fact, they are so defenseless to the outside world that can even become prey to large birds and snakes. With 3 to 6 cubs in each litter, lionesses are kept very busy guarding their young. Even a lapse in judgment or surveillance for a few moments can cause the death of one of her cubs. Lion mothers devote their lives for the first few weeks of their cubs’ lives to make sure that they are safe. They have to do this to ensure that as many of them survive as possible.
Baby Lion Images and Videos Shot in Western India.
I wasn’t sure if I should go back to the truck or stay there and also hold my ground. The lionesses turned their faces away from me so I started to walk in the opposite direction. I was relieved but also disappointed. A decision had to be made: follow them or go back to the truck.
