Lion, large, powerfully built cat that is second in size only to the tiger. The proverbial ‘king of the beasts,’ the lion has been one of the best-known wild animals since earliest times. Lions are most active at night and live in a variety of habitats
of theWest Indies. Old World monkeys include many that are often seen inzoos, especially the beautifully coloured African guenons (e.g.,mona,diana, white-nosed, green, vervet, andgrivetmonkeys),colobus,mangabeys, and the chiefly Asiaticmacaques. The macaques include theBarbary “ape”ofNorth ...
which has spread through cultural and linguistic contact into a number of Bantu (Niger-Congo) languages—such as Xhosa, Zulu, and Sotho in South Africa and Gciriku (Diriku), Yei (Yeye), and Mbukushu in Botswana and Namibia—and into Dahalo, a Cushitic (Afro-Asiatic) language of Kenya....