WORKSHOP BRIEF INDESIGN
For our Indesign workshop we have to create a double page spread including 500 words & 3 images for our given animal from the randomiser!My animal was lion I've started off by collecting some images and general information about Lions.
IMAGES (Lion Research)
The lion is a magnificent animal that appears as a symbol of power, courage and nobility on family crests, coats of arms and national flags in many civilizations. Lions at one time were found from Greece through the Middle East to northern India, but today only a very small population remains in India. In the past lions lived in most parts of Africa, but are now confined to the sub-Saharan region.
Most cat species live a fundamentally solitary existence, but the lion is an exception. It has developed a social system based on teamwork and a division of labor within the pride, and an extended but closed family unit centered around a group of related females. The average pride consists of about 15 individuals, including five to 10 females with their young and two or three territorial males that are usually brothers or pride mates.
Generally a tawny yellow, lions, like other species, tend to be lighter in color in hot, arid areas and darker in areas of dense vegetation. Mature male lions are unique among the cat species for the thick mane of brown or black hair that encircles the head and neck. The tails of lions end in a horny spine covered with a tuft of hair.Lions are found in savannas, grasslands, dense bush and woodlands.Females do 85 to 90 percent of the pride's hunting, while the males patrol the territory and protect the pride, for which they take the "lion's share" of the females' prey. When resting, lions seem to enjoy good fellowship with lots of touching, head rubbing, licking and purring. But when it comes to food, each lion looks out for itself. Squabbling and fighting are common, with adult males usually eating first, followed by the females and then the cubs.
Lions are the laziest of the big cats. They usually spend 16 to 20 hours a day sleeping and resting, devoting the remaining hours to hunting, courting or protecting their territory. They keep in contact with one another by roaring loud enough to be heard up to five miles away. The pride usually remains intact until the males are challenged and successfully driven away or killed by other males, who then take over. Not all lions live in prides. At maturity, young males leave the units of their birth and spend several years as nomads before they become strong enough to take over a pride of their own. Some never stop wandering and continue to follow migrating herds; but the nomadic life is much more difficult, with little time for resting or reproducing.Within the pride, the territorial males are the fathers of all the cubs. When a lioness is in heat, a male will join her, staying with her constantly. The pair usually mates for less than a minute, but it does so about every 15 to 30 minutes over a period of four to five days.
Lions may hunt at any hour, but they typically go after large prey at night. They hunt together to increase their success rate, since prey can be difficult to catch and can outrun a single lion. The lions fan out along a broad front or semicircle to creep up on prey. Once with within striking distance, they bound in among the startled animals, knock one down and kill it with a bite to the neck or throat. Hunts are successful about half the time.Cooperative hunting enables lions to take prey as large as wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, young elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes, any of which can provide several meals for the pride. Mice, lizards, tortoises, warthogs, antelopes and even crocodiles also form part of a lion's diet. Because they often take over kills made by hyenas, cheetahs and leopards, scavenged food provides more than 50 percent of their diets in areas like the Serengeti plains.
Litters consist of two or three cubs that weigh about 3 pounds each. Some mothers carefully nurture the young; others may neglect or abandon them, especially when food is scarce. Usually two or more females in a pride give birth about the same time, and the cubs are raised together. A lioness will permit cubs other than her own to suckle, sometimes enabling a neglected infant to survive. Capable hunters by 2 years of age, lions become fully grown between 5 and 6 years and normally live about 13 years.Lions have long been killed in rituals of bravery, as hunting trophies and for their medicinal and magical powers. Although lions are now protected in many parts of Africa, they were once considered to be stock-raiding vermin and were killed on sight. In some areas, livestock predation remains a severe problem.
CHRISTIAN THE LION
Ive decided to use the story about christian the lion, who was brought up by two australian friends , when christian was to big they took him to an african wild life sanctuary so he could be integrated back into the wild. They went to see him a year later and the lion recognised the two friends and hugged them!sourcehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14240681
Text for the double page spread-
The huge, powerful animal strode towards the men, and then
instead of launching an attack, lolloped up to be hugged, petted and
stroked.The explanation for this extraordinary behavior is that the men and the
lion were old friends.
It is almost exactly 40 years
since two young Australians had what has become a famous encounter with a lion
in the depths of the African bush.
A year later John Rendall and Ace Bourke decided to go and
see how their old friend was getting on. But would he remember them? How would
he react?Just a few weeks earlier another lion in the process of being returned
to the wild in the same area had killed a man.Eventually, in the depths of the
bush in the remote Kora region, Christian came over the brow of a hill - now a
really large creature with a fine mane.
“We realised that we were living with an
incredibly complex, intelligent animal”
John Rendall Almost incredibly, they had first met in a shop
in London. John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke had come across
Christian late in 1969, at what was then a zoo in the upmarket department
store, Harrods’
"In the centre of it were these two beautiful,
beautiful lion cubs," Mr Rendall told the BBC World Service's Witness
programme.He was immediately drawn to the male of the pair."He
had a nature that was instantly attractive. You could see that he wasn't
frightened, he wasn't distressed. He was just above it all. And that is very,
very irresistible."The two Australians, who had only just arrived in London,
decided almost immediately that they would buy Christian.After the Harrods
staff had been convinced that they would be the right kind of owners, the
friends paid 250 guineas - about £3,500 ($5,736) in today's money - and then
walked out of the shop with the lion on a lead.
But nearly a year on Christian already weighed as much as
a man, and he was growing fast. It was definitely time to find him more secure
surroundings than his flat in Chelsea.Eventually the renowned expert in lion
behaviour, George Adamson agreed to try to release him into the wild in Kenya.
"He starts walking very very slowly down towards us.
The body language was of curiosity - not attack," said Mr Rendall.
"Eventually we couldn't resist, and called him - and that's when he took
off."He bounced down the hill and into his friends' arms, letting them
hug, play and wrestle with him.
"It was a euphoric moment."
Today Mr Rendall says nobody should try to raise a lion in
an urban environment in the way that he did.The dangers are obvious.But Mr
Rendall was profoundly influenced by his time with Christian.He became
interested in conservation work, and today he is heavily involved with the
George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust.As for Christian, his re-introduction to the wild was
successful.
In their recently re-published book A Lion Called
Christian, John Rendall and Anthony Burke acknowledged that back in 1969 they
were naive.They concede that buying exotic animals only serves to fuel the
trafficking of them.
Possible images i might use-
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