c.1300, to call, call out; to ask or demand by virtue of right or authority, from accented stem of Old French clamer to call, name, describe; claim; complain; declare, from Latin clamare to cry out, shout, proclaim, from PIE *kele-(2) to shout, imitative (cf. Sanskrit usakala cock, literally dawn-calling; Latin calare to announce solemnly, call out; Middle Irish cailech cock; Greek kalein to call, kelados noise, kledon report, fame; Old High German halan to call; Old ...
Most black panthers hunt at night. They are masters of concealment and use every available rock, bush, or depression to hide themselves and get as close as possible to their prey. As they wait, they are silent and cautious.
This is not a âjungleâ either: it is dry scrubland and open deciduous forest. Not only do lions not live in the jungle, âtonightâ is the least likely time for them to be sleeping. Outside the mating season, they spend 20 hours a day lying down and snoozing, two hours walking and just under an hour eating. However, what hunting they do generally takes place at night. Lions can run at 50mph for short distances. During the mating season, lionesses have sex up to 50 times a day for four days and nights in a row with as many as five males â but each bout lasts only ten seconds. Up to 8% of lion mountings are thought to be homosexual.