Animal Name: Lion

  Kingdom: Animalia

Characteristics that place it here:

• they are multicellular and they are heterotrophs. 
• the animal cells lack the rigid cell walls that characterize plant cells.
• their cells are organized into special tissues.
• they are specialized to some degree  to perform specific functions.

Phylum: Chordata

Characteristics that place it here:

• Bylateral symmatry
• segmented body including segmented muscles
• single, darsal, hollow nerve, usually with an enlarged brain.
• 3 germ layers and a well-developed coleom
• tail projecting behind the anus @ some stage of development
• complete digestive system
• bony or cartilaginous endoskeleton, usually present

Class: Mammilia  

Characteristics that place it there:

• they have 3 middle ear-bones
• hair and mammary glands.
• they hear sounds that are transmitted from the outside world to their inner ears by a chain of 3 bones - the malleus , incus, and stapes.