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Litters consist of two or three cubs that weigh about 3 pounds each. Some mothers carefully afeican and elephant nurture the young; others may neglect or abandon them, especially when food is scarce. Usually two or more females in a pride give birth about the same time. A lioness afeican will permit cubs other than her own to suckle, sometimes enabling a neglected infant to survive. Capable hunters by 2 years elephant of age, lions become fully grown between afeican 5 and 6 years and normally live about 13 years. Lions have long been killed in rituals of bravery, as hunting trophies and for their medicinal and magical powers. Although lions are now protected elephant in many parts of Africa, they were afeican and elephant once considered to be stock-raiding vermin and were killed on sight. In some afeican areas, livestock predation remains a severe problem. Early written records described the giraffe as "magnificent in appearance, bizarre in form, unique in gait, colossal in height and inoffensive elephant in character."

Ancient cultures in Africa revered the giraffe, as some modern cultures do today, and commonly depicted it in prehistoric rock and cave paintings. Unknown outside of Africa, this animal so excited man''s curiosity that it was sometimes sent as a diplomatic gift afeican to other countries; one of the earliest elephant records tells of a giraffe going from afeican and elephant "Melinda" (presumably Malindi) in Kenya to China in afeican 1415. The animal elephant was thought to be a cross between a camel and a leopard, afeican a mistake immortalized in the giraffe''s scientific name of Giraffa camelopardalis. The neck is so long the giraffe must spread its front legs apart so its head can reach the ground elephant to drink. It has unusually elastic blood vessels with a series afeican of valves that help offset elephant the sudden buildup of blood (and to prevent fainting) when the head is raised, lowered or swung quickly. In some areas, livestock predation remains a severe problem.

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