The Lion (Panthera leo) is one of four big cats in the genus Panth
era, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 l
b) in weight,[4] it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions
 currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with a critically endangered
remnant population in northwest India, having disappeared from North Africa, the
 Middle East, and Western Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, wh
ich was about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mamm
al after humans. They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from western
 Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru.