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No. The Lion King is an animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and was written by numerous Disney screenwriters, most prominently Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. It is said that the story was influenced by the Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III as well as by Disney classic Bambi (1942).
The Morning Report is a song that was released on the special edition version but not in the original. It just describes the life in the pride lands for Simba and Mufasa.
There is actually an official Lion King genealogy that can be found in many places on the web that shows the original lion, Mohatu, was the beginning of the entire family and was father to Ahadi, who was a male lion with a black mane and light coat. Ahadi and the lioness Uru (who had a dark coat) had Taka (who was later renamed Scar and had the dark mane of his father and the dark coat of his mother) and Mufasa (who looked very similar to Mohatu). So Scar/Taka's black mane came from his father. However, in the wild some lions do actually have black manes, sometimes from age and sometimes from genes.
Male lions maintain a pride of female lions, young males, and cubs. When the young males reach adulthood, they are chased out of the pride by the adult males. In each pride, it is the females who do the hunting, and usually stay with their birth prides their whole lives. It is not uncommon for two males (who may or may not be related) to protect a pride. Some prides even have three or more males, in which case the males are almost always related or grew up together. Male lions without lionesses often form "bachelor prides" of about 3-5 and attempt to win lionesses from other males. In a real lion pride, Mufasa and Scar likely would have ruled equally.
The associated books give his original name as Taka.
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