However, before being called "King of Jungle", they were called "Kings of The Beasts". If you count when lions began being associated with kingliness, then it began all the way in the times of the first civilizations. read more
Lion is known to be the King of Beasts ("king of the jungle" would be a misnomer) across most cultures of the world. This is mostly because of a lion’s appearance and partly because of the social structure of a pride and the lion’s role in the pride. read more
JUNGLE is a word in Hindi meaning "not an inhabited place". The word covers forest, wilderness, wold, waste, even the world (without human structures). The emphasis is on emptiness. Much of what is called jungle in India is steppe or nearly desert. read more