Lions use various forms of communication, including body language, touch, scent, and vocalization. Head rubbing is a common greeting between lions and helps reinforce social bonds. Lions have many facial expressions and scent glands that they use to communicate information about their identity, location, and emotional state. Their most distinctive vocalization is the loud roar, which is used both to defend territory and attract mates.

1. Animal communication
Lions
Worked by: Kandalintseva D.,
Kondulevich A.
Checked by: A. A. Novikova
Novosibirsk, 2012
Gymnasium № 9

2. Lions communicate with each other through body
language, touch, scent, and vocalization.

3. Head rubbing—nuzzling one's forehead, face and neck
against another lion—appears to be a form of greeting, as it
is seen often after an animal has been apart from others, or
after a fight or confrontation.

4. Lions have an array of facial expressions and body postures that
serve as visual gesture. The most important body part used to
communicate is their face.

5. Lions have many scent glands on their cheeks, lips,
forehead, chin, tail and even between their toes. A lion's
scent communicates with other lions where they have
been and how long ago. They also use scent to attract a
mate.

6. Because lions are one of the most threatening predators in
the wild, they are not scared to be noisy.

7. Lions have the loudest roar of any big cat. Lion sounds
include snarling, hissing, coughing, meowing, woofing and
roaring.

8. The list of the literature
• http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01006/lions.htm
• http://acp.eugraph.com/catdog/index.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Behaviour