How to recognise me

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How to recognise me

• You can recognise me by my fur, it has a unique
  colour It can vary from blonde to white because
  of a rare colour mutation found in some tawny
  lions. Because of our colour people pay a lot of
  money over 100,000 pounds to hunt us and keep our
  skins as rugs in their homes, its hard to live
  in the wild for us not just because of poachers
  but our coats dont give us enough camouflage to
  hunt for food our prey can spot us as we try to
  hide in the grass and sneak up on them so we are
  unable to live in our natural habitat.

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Where I come from

• I come from the Timbavati area in South Africa,
  but you can find me in different wild life
  reserves. In West Midlands Safari Park you can
  find a pride of white lions who have just had
  cubs they bought these animals from people in a
  wild life reserve in Africa our population is
  being spread throughout wild life parks all over
  the world including New Zealand, West Midlands
  U.K, and Mostly Africa. There isnt many lions
  like me in the wild we mostly live in animal
  parks or in captivity for special breeding
  programs to bring our species back. You might
  think its cruel to keep us in cages, but its
  actually a good thing because if we werent here
  then we would all become extinct.

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What I like to eat

• I like to eat any type of meat but mostly zebra,
  wildebeest, gazelles, antelope and waterbucks.
  These would be my usual prey in the wild, my
  fellow lions would all hunt together for food but
  because we live in wild life reserves we dont
  get to hunt but we do still get fed by the zoo
  keepers who really like to see us. When we are
  eating we get very protective even if we are
  normally very well natured, we know that our food
  is our only way of survival so its best to stay
  out of our way when were eating.

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Interesting facts about me

• The lion is the second largest of all cats, with
  tigers being the biggest.
• A pride can be around 30-40 lions, and their
  territory can be up to 200 square miles.
• The life of a lion in captivity is increased up
  to 10 years due to not having to hunt or fight.
• Males Within a pride have a social bond and will
  protect their pride together.
• When cubs are -4 months old they will start to
  assist their mothers in hunts for food but wont
  actually kill anything until around 2 years old.
• Lions will travel up to 15 miles in search of
  food.
• Lion cubs will often be seen fighting with their
  siblings and mother this is to develop fighting
  skills for the future when they go off to find
  their own pride.
• Lionesses mainly hunt for their pride but the
  males will always eat first even though they
  didnt help to kill it.

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Marking

• Presentation. This is excellent. I like very much
  the colour of the slides you have chosen. It
  suits your topic. You have organised your
  information on the different slides well too.
• Content. You have told us some good information
  here, and it is pretty well set out. You have
  included all the information I asked you to.
• Writing style. Your spelling and punctuation is
  generally pretty good, although you need to watch
  out for apostrophes. You have tried to use a
  range of different sentence structures here too,
  although if you use complex sentences, you need
  to remember the commas to help the reader.
  Remember your audience too. This might be a bit
  hard for 7-11 year olds. Try always to use your
  on words, no just those from the websites you
  have used.
• Overall, a really good effort, and you have
  remembered throughout to write as if you are the
  animal. Well done Paige.