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Lions will occasionally take a younger elephant but elephants are not a usual diet item for the lion. They would only take such a large prey if their normal prey animals are scarce. Killing an elephant is a dangerous proposition for a lion and may result in serious injury or death.
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∙ 12y agoIn a pride, the females do most (nearly all) of the hunting. A solitary male lion, not in a pride, will have to obtain his own food, but he may actually do this not so much by hunting per se, but by finding the fresh kill of a smaller predator and chasing them off.
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∙ 14y agoYes, the male lion can be like some men from many different cultures, where the females do the hunting for food, and he just sits and eats it all.
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∙ 13y agoNo, they do it by themselfs. The males stay with the pride and watch the cubs.
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∙ 14y agoYes. Lionesses are the ones that hunt primarily to feed the pride.
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∙ 12y agoNo
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Who hunt a cheetah?
Lions, leopards and hyenas will hunt and kill cheetah cubs.
Who are hunting hyenas?
Well, its not all but lions hunt Hyenas if that helps.
What animals hunt hyenas?
The answer is the animal that hunt the Hyena are: Lions, Jaguar and crocodiles
Do they hunt together?
Lions, hyenas, and wolves hunt together. Bears hunt alone.
Who hunts with pride of lions?
Lions hunt alone as a family pride. At a kill, hyenas (if they outnumber the lions) might, by weight of numbers, force the lions to retreat and leave the kill to the hyenas.
Does a lion eat a giraffe?
Lions will kill hyenas but rarely eat them.
Do hyenas eat lions?
noThey will eat the dead and dying one's.Actually, hyenas have proven to be better predators than lions are. The old belief that they were strictly scavenders was based on biased observations. Lions often kill hyenas, and a pack of hyenas have killed isolated lions and cubs, but hyenas do not hunt lions regularly.
Is lions killed by hyenas more than hyenas killed by lions?
Hyenas are killed by lions more than lions killed by hyenas because lions are more powerful than hyenas, lions are bigger than hyenas and have more control over hyenas. but it is said that hyeans killed lions too.
What do lions and hyenas compete for?
Hyenas and lions compete over prey. Both animals hunt the same types of ungulates. They also fight over carcasses, and sometimes attempt to steal kills from each other.
What eats zebras?
Cheetahs, lions, hyenas, leopards, hyenas, and wild dogs.
What would a lion and zebra compete for in their enviement?
Lions and zebra do not compete. Instead, lions hunt zebra for food. Lions do compete with other animals like hyenas over prey, including zebras.
Do hyenas get eaten by lions?
Not usually. Lions kill hyenas because of competition not because of food.
