African Lion

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This is Bruno, an African Lion at the Houston Zoo. Bruno was born in December, 1987 and died of kidney failure in January 2006 (a few months after this photo was taken); he weighed about 400 pounds. Scientific Classification:

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Subphylum: Vertebrata
• Class: Mammalia
• Order: Carnivora
• Family: Felidae
• Genus: Panthera
• Species: leo

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