COLOUR: Lions are mostly tawny, but their color varies from almost silvery yellow to reddish brown with paler undersides (female belly yellowish to almost white); yellow to black mane. Faint, leopard like spots on young sometimes retained into adulthood. In fact the White Lions of the Timbavati are very white!
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MOST LIKE: Lions are unlikely to be confused with any other animal.
HABITAT: African Lions occur in a variety of habitats, from open savannah to semi-desert; never in forests.
DOMAIN / WHERE FOUND: Lions distribution is -- Northern Namibia, Botswana, northern & southern Zimbabwe, northwestern & central Mozambique, Mpumalaga and Limpopo, the Kruger National Park, and the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park of the northern Cape.
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Best places to see the African Lion in Southern Africa:
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NATIONAL PARKS:
Kruger National Park - South Africa's biggest nature reserve is home to aproximately 2500 lions!
Pilanesberg National Park (South Africa)
Hluhluwe-Umfolozi National Park (South Africa)
Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (South Africa)
Etosha National Park (Namibia)
Chobe National Park (Botswana)
Kasunga National Park (Malawi)
PRIVATE GAME RESERVES:
Mala Mala Game Reserve
Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve
Phinda Resources Reserve
Timbavati Private Game Reserve
Shamwari Game Reserve
Londolozi Private Game Reserve
Singita Private Game Reserve
Ngala Private Game Reserve
Makalali Private Game Reserve
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OTHER RESERVES/ PLACES TO SEE LION
Okavango Delta (Botswana)
Savuti Marsh (Botswana)
Mashatu Game Reserve (Botswana)
Kaokaveld in northwestern Namibia
