A mane is a pain, but worth it for male lions
...es grow longer manes, the work is the first to tie mane length and color to temperature as a determining f...s from adult lions. To test reactions to different mane length, she paired dummies with short blond or long blond manes. In separate experiments to observe ......use of the high environmental cost of possessing a mane in the hot, dry Tsavo landscape. In addition, a mane would make it difficult to negotiate the thorns and bramble of Tsavos thick undergrowth. Thus, manes...