LION

Kingdom- Animala 

Characteristics that place it here:

• multicelluar form with specialized enkaryotic cells that have their own means of locomotion

phylum- Cordata

Characteristics that place it here:

•  bilaterally symmetrical body

•  3 germ layers 

• segmented muscles

• single dorsal

• ventral heart with dorsal and ventral blood vessel 

• closed blood system

• complete digestive system

Class-Mammalia

Classifications that place it here 

• A lion is a mammel

• A lion consumes oxygen

• reproduces

• needs living space

• needs food and water to live

• can hear

• has hair and sweat glands 

• feeds there newborns with milk

Order-Carnivora

characteristics that place it here:

• They feed off of other animals in order to survive

• Eat meat

Family-Felidae

characteristics that place it here:

• Lions are field animals

• they kill there prey and they rely on it for food to survive

Genius-Panthera

characteristics that place it here

• Lions live in fields

• carnivors

species-Leo

L-live in the plains of Africa and Asia

I-in captivity they live longer then if in the wild

O-on a regular basis they are strong powerful creatures

N-nothing can stop them for they are the lion

REFERENCES

animal diversity web

information from: http://animaldiversity.umm2.umich.adu/accounts/panthera/p._leo html

date: January 3rd

picture found at: www.webshots.com  animals wildlife -African male lion