-- more accurate aging?

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Okay, so I was having some trouble sleeping, so I decided to do something productive with my time. I began to do some hardcore reading and researching on the Lion King franchise as well as looking up some real life lion facts. Using these things I've found, along with using our own agreed event happenings, I think I've got up a pretty accurate aging of the canon characters for our site.

The timeline points down here will begin at the point in the first movie where young Simba wakes up his father and mother, and I'll be adding the facts I know about into each point to explain. See what you think:

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Lion King I - Lion King II Timelime Points

- In real life, lion cubs don't wean away from their mothers until about six to seven months, so I believe it's safe to assume that at the time Simba was given speaking roles and woke up his parents till the time he ran away to the jungle that he and Nala were each at least about six months old.

- If we forgo the extra scenes in the musical, then we can say that after Scar's take over, he choses Zira as his Queen at this point. I found on wikipedia that Zira is a generation older than Nala, so that means that she'd be about the same age as Sarabi, and since lions mature and can reproduce around two or three, Zira is most likely two or three more years older than Nala in Lion King II.

- In the next scenes, we see Simba living his life in the jungle and watch as he grows up. Male lions reach maturity at about four, but they start getting their manes in at two and have a good sized mane at about three even though it's not fully in yet. For the sake of Disney and for the sake of real life, I think he would be about three; his mane is fully in but he's just reached physical maturity. Nala on the other hand, would have reached maturity a year earlier, as in real life lionesses reach maturity at two years.

- As there would've probably have been three years of Scar's Reign, in which those three years Simba lived in the Jungle, that would give plenty of time for Nuka to have been born and weaned. But let's assume they didn't get started right off the bat as soon as he became king and say that during the last year of his reign that she bore Nuka. That would put him about the right age for the movie, two years as he was beginnig to fill in his mane.

- Once Simba returned, he and Nala bore Kopa when the land had recovered, which couldn't have been long, but I imagine it was right about the time Nuka would've turned one year of age. Four months later after Kopa's birth, Zira kidnaps him from the Pridelands only days after being exiled for her brutal killing of Kovu and Vitani's mother. After his disappearance, Simba and Nala would've grieved for a while, but soon would have Koda and Kiara. I found some deleted scenes from the second movie that prove that Kovu was at least four months older than Kiara at the time of Kiara's birth, so this seems to be to be about right, giving Simba and Nala a month to grieve over their son's "death" and allowiing for the four month period of pregnancy.

- Because at the age of two young lions can hunt for themselves, Koda, Kiara, Vitani, and Kovu are probably all about two now.

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- Simba // 6 Years
- Nala // 6 Years
- Koda // 2 Years
- Kiara // 2 Years
- Mheetu // 5 Years (he's suppose to be a year behind Nala)
- Makima // 1-3 Years (didn't really check up on her. x3)
- Zira // 7-8 Years
- Kovu // 2 Years, 6 Months
- Vitani // 2 Years, 6 Months
- Nuka // 4 Years
- Kopa // 2 Years, 9 Months
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These were very hard to come up with, lots of math and research had to go into them, as well as keeping with the current time plot, but these are the most accurate ages I can come up with using the canon evens and our own additions to the story. Hope you like them and I hope I did a good job. :3

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[Vitani ♥]

_{Good job Snow, I love the time line it will be a good way to know about the age the lions should be.}