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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 52
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Ethnic groups in Malawi, Languages of Malawi, Malawian cuisine, Malawian media, Malawian music, National symbols of Malawi, Religion in Malawi, Sport in Malawi, Tourism in Malawi, Lion, Leopard, Lemba people, English language, Nyakyusa people, Baha'i Faith in Malawi, Ngoni people, Music of Malawi, Yao people, Yao language, Lake of Stars Music Festival, Chewa language, Tonga people of Malawi, Flag of Malawi, Tumbuka language, Mulungu dalitsa Mala i, Malawian English, Theo Thomson, Kachumbari, Rugby union in Malawi, Sports in Malawi, Nali Sauce, Public Affairs Committee, Lambya people, Malawi national netball team, National anthem of Malawi, Hinduism in Malawi, Makololo tribe, Islam in Malawi, Malawi at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Weekend Times, Ndali language, Amaravi, The Nation, Lomwe language, Tapps Bandawe, Malawi at the Olympics, Weekend Nation, Mang'anja, Nyasa Times, Ndali people, Club Makokola, Television Malawi, National Library Service of Malawi. Excerpt: The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with an endangered remnant population in Gir Forest National Park in India, having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a possibly irreversible population decline of thirty to fifty percent over the past two decades in its African range. Lion populations are untenable...