the lion is a species of carnivorous mammal of the genus Panthera and the Felidae family. The species is currently found in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, with a single remaining population at risk in the Gir Forest National Park, Gujarat, India. It became extinct in North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times, and until the Late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years, was the most widespread large land mammal after humans and is found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia , Western Europe, India, and America, the Yukon to Mexico. It is one of the four big cats, with some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, the second largest feline after the tiger recent