Interesting facts about male lions

Male lions are known to be lazy and sleep around the whole day but that's not the case,male lions play a very important role in a pride for instance the offer protection to the pride by patrolling thier territory by driving rival males that may kill any lion cop in the pride given the pride has no males to fight off the rival males.
That's why male lions are often found sleeping so they can recover energy lost during patrol and fighting off rival males.
Males lions are also needed in a pride to ensure the survivability of the specie.