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The lion is a mammal of the family Felidae and one of the four large cats of the genus Panthera (Latin: Panthera). It is the second largest cat in the world after the tiger, with males weighing over 250 kilograms (550 pounds). Most of the wild lions remaining today live in sub-Saharan Africa, and still live in Asia in the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat, a small endangered group. The habitat of lions was previously very vast, being found in North Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia, where they became extinct only a few centuries ago. Until the beginning of the modern era (the Holocene, about 10,000 years ago), lions were considered the most widespread land mammal after humans,