Resurgence in the interest of bird watching prompted one community to start a new bird house hobby club. All ages are welcome to join, and other communities are encouraged to start their own hobby club that builds different types of bird houses for the various feathered friends that are present in their area. The idea was formulated when local boys had asked one of the avid bird watchers in town to help them build bird houses. It started as a weekend project and turned into a community project.
Bird hunting turned to bird watching for several young boys who watched as a family of mourning doves built their nest, sat on their eggs and hatched out three babies. The boys wanted to build the bird houses to provide shelter for the family of birds in bad weather. They didn’t understand that once the nest is built, the parents will most often stick to their original home, but other pairs of birds would be attracted. Once the boys learned this, they were really enthusiastic about building different sizes so a wide variety of birds would start nesting.
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Next to the tigers, they are the largest living cats of the feline family. The tiger is the largest. The lions are the only social cats and they live in groups called prides. A single pride is made up of up to three males, fifteen females and their young ones. Females in a group are related while males once they reach maturity move from the pride in search of other groups to dominate. Since the females’ are related, they are very close to each other and they share a very tight bond. During the day, you will find them under tree shades purring, touching and licking each other affectionately. They also help each other in taking care of the young ones.
A mature lion can weigh up to 227 kg. It can be from 5 to 8 feet in length and about 4 feet tall. It is the tallest cat at the shoulders. The male lion spots a mane which covers the neck and the upper back. Its life span is about fourteen years in the wild though it can live for more than twenty in captivity. It belongs to the kingdom animalia, phylum Chordata, class mammalia, order carnivora, family felidae, and genus Panthera and species Panthera Leo. Its binomial name is Panthera Leo.
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Today the lions have greatly decreased and only about 21000 can be found in different parts of the world. In the centuries past, they used to roam freely in Africa. They can now be found only in the Sub-Sahara desert, and some parts of South and East Africa. Drought is the main cause of their decline in population. In 1994 and 2001 they died in large numbers from the Distemper disease which was caused by drought. Global warming today is greatly affecting them. During seasons of drought, they cannot get enough prey and what they get is weak and malnourished causing them too to be weak.
Human have been a major cause for their decline in population. The war between human and Lions have lasted for many centuries. Human beings have encroached forest land forcing animals to migrate to other regions or starve to death. Lions sometimes are forced to prey on cattle as their food in the forests is not enough. This causes the human to hunt and kill them mercilessly. In the Masai culture, one is considered brave and strong if he kills a lion therefore all the young men aim at this causing more problems for the innocent creatures.
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