African lions are the top hunters in the African savannah. With their strong bodies, strong physical strength and fierce bites, other animals are frightened, especially African lions, whose fighting capacity is even more explosive. They often play a decisive role in hunting in groups. Those lions who are the most brave, have the most immediate fighting power and the most commanding ability will become the leaders of a lion group, leading many lions under their command to expand their territory, consolidate their achievements and win. The growth of lions and the formation of alliances
In fact, the growth process of lions is not smooth sailing. After being born, they can live independently and will be expelled by the original lions. The reason for this situation is that African lions are handed down from generation to generation on the basis of females. After expelling the lions, the adverse consequences caused by the breeding of close relatives of the lions can be minimized. In fact, this is a self-protection mechanism produced by the lions in the long-term evolution process.
besides suffering from the changeable and cruel natural environment in the prairie, the lions expelled by the lions are more important to bear the pressure from other carnivores. They must invest more time, energy and physical strength than the lions to adapt to the environment and improve their hunting ability, otherwise they can only be eliminated by nature, so the lions who can finally grow up are definitely the elite of the best. On the African prairie, some banished lions will form an "alliance" in order to improve their predation efficiency and viability. People call this lion combination "African Lion Alliance" vividly, and there is a very exciting combination-the Bad Boys Alliance, which is invincible. The power of the bad boy alliance
According to a large number of field monitoring by relevant personnel, it is found that this bad boy combination of six lions almost runs across the whole prairie. As long as these members feel hungry, all animals will become food in front of them, even the lone lions and some old and weak lions. For example, in the Sabisen Nature Reserve in Mpu Malanga Province, about 5 lions have become the staple food of the Bad Boys' League, so they got the title of the Bad Boy, which shows how terrible their individual or group fighting ability is. However, after two members of the league were killed by poachers, the fighting capacity of the league was greatly reduced, and two members were killed by other lions when they acted alone, so the bad boy league disappeared and was replaced by other rising stars.
If you fight another group of hyenas with the same "excellent" fighting capacity on the African prairie in the heyday of the Bad Boys League, can you beat a group of 1 individual hyenas? The confrontation between lions and hyenas
Hyenas are social animals headed by females, and the female hyenas are 1%-2% larger than males, and have absolute control over a group. The survival rules of spotted hyenas mainly include: hunting in groups, being good at digging anus, not rejecting scavengers and opportunism. Among them, group hunting is to take advantage of the number of groups, lock the target and round it up, and then use the powerful biting ability and anal cutting skills to slowly exhaust the prey's physical strength. The number of a spotted dog group varies, with only a dozen small ones and more than 5 large ones. According to observation and statistics, the number of groups that have seen the most at present is more than 9.
The opportunism of spotted hyenas is mainly manifested in that they can seize the right moment, and after some large carnivores have consumed a lot of physical strength to catch food, they will closely surround these prey, and when the carnivores are not paying attention, they will go forward and bite their prey so as to achieve the goal of getting a share. However, carnivores who have just preyed on their prey often turn a blind eye because of excessive physical exertion and the strength of the hyenas. For African lions, only when they are forced or their situation is threatened, will they choose the leader, that is, the biggest one, to fight, which will be fatal at the first hand, thus saving their physical strength and scaring the hyenas. The Battle between the Bad Boy League and 1 hyenas
What would be the possible result if the Bad Boy League clashed with the largest group of 1 hyenas?
From the reaction to the lion hunting and the harassment of the hyenas, we can see that the lions have a great chance of winning against the hyenas, but they are not alone, and they are more than enough to deal with a dozen hyenas. Then, if the bad boy league fights with 1 spotted hyenas, we have to analyze them from the characteristics of hyenas.
the number of spotted hyenas depends on the fertility of the female leaders in this group on the one hand, and on the other hand, whether there are sufficient food sources. Even if there are more, not all of them will go into battle when hunting. Usually, when hunting, 1-2 dogs are the most efficient, that is to say, taking out 1 spotted hyenas, the sum of their fighting capacity is not a simple individual value multiplied by 1, so the number is more efficient.
In addition, as an opportunist, the long-term harassment and sneak attack on the survival rules make the spotted hyena have a very flexible figure and a very alert sensitivity. When it is deadlocked with the target opponent or encounters unfavorable situations, individuals will gradually withdraw from the group, and then the whole group will make a strategic shift, that is to say, it has trained the survival ability of getting the most at the least cost.
The reason why the bad boy league can sweep the prairie is that on the one hand, it comes from their strong individual quality and ability, on the other hand, it also has their ability to judge the situation and cooperate with the group. Compared with the previous cases in which many lions defeated the hyenas, the Bad Boys League will definitely choose the largest individual as the attack object when fighting with the hyenas, and this individual is most likely the leader of the hyenas. The chance of the Bad Boys League successfully killing the female hyenas is definitely very high, and once the leader is killed, there will be no matter how many hyenas there are. Summary
Although the spotted hyenas are also the animals with the highest fighting power in the African savannah, and their anus-pulling skills are well-deserved, their natural socialized division of labor and highly alert survival rules determine that the group will be dissolved after the death of the leader, and they cannot really engage in stalemate and struggle with the bad boy alliance.
I can't beat it.
If you really fight, a lion can fight about 5 hyenas, and a bad boy can fight about 3 hyenas. If confronted, the bad boy can probably fight against 5 spotted hyenas. The bad boy is a six-lion alliance. There are actually quite a few six-lion alliances in Africa. There are six lion alliances such as Paradise Six Warriors, Nuochi Alliance, Old Devil Lions, Horseshoe, and Fashion Lions. There are even seven lions in the grassland and eight lions in Mohlatetsi, with more than 1 lion alliances, such as the sky quilt.
But the more lions there are, the easier it is to split. The Six Lions Alliance is the strongest and most dominant alliance. However, it is estimated that there are no 1 hyenas, so many can't be kept alive and have to be divided. The largest hyenas are about 9. Generally speaking, the hyenas in southern Africa are large in size and small in group size. The hyenas and lions here are almost the same in size, and both sides have won a great victory in grabbing the lions. In East Africa, however, the hyenas are small in size and large in size, such as the Ngorongoro volcano and the hyenas in Masai Mara, where the hyenas are 2-3 times larger than the lions, and both sides win and lose each other. According to Hyenas in Kalahari, the number of 9-month-old hyenas in each region is as follows: 35-8 in crater, 52 in Masai Mara, 8-14 in Heluhluwe, 11 in Kruger, 4-8 in namib desert and 3-14 in Kalahari.
how many spotted dogs can beat a lion?
the weight of two adult hyenas is equivalent to an adult female lion, and three adult hyenas are equivalent to a male lion.
According to the research, in Masai Mara, the average number ratio of the spotted hyenas successfully grabbing the prey of the lioness is 5.8: 1 when the lion is not present, and the average number ratio of the spotted hyenas successfully grabbing the prey of the lions is 7.5: 1 when the lion is present, that is to say, one lion plus three lionesses is against 3 spotted hyenas, and the lions are on guard. Among the 255 confrontations, the spotted hyenas robbed their prey 72 times in 162 games where the lion was not present, accounting for 44.4%. In the 93 games where the lion was present, the spotted hyenas snatched the prey 26 times, accounting for 28%. It can be seen that the size and appearance of the male lion can play a great deterrent role to the spotted hyena. However, most of these incidents were confrontations and did not fight.
besides lions, the spotted hyenas are the largest gregarious carnivores on land. The spotted hyenas can compete with or even suppress lions in groups. If a six-lion alliance can beat 1 spotted hyenas, why should the spotted hyenas stay in groups? They might as well wander around like brown hyenas to pick up carrion.
The most famous hyena killer among male lions is Yintai Dumela, who killed two hyena queens in succession. When Dumela returned from patrol for the first time, she found a group of hyenas eating. She rushed into the group of hyenas and bit off the spine of the hyenas queen, causing her serious injury and death. The second time, the new hyena queen defied and destroyed Dumela's mark, exposed herself and was killed by Dumela. Although Dumela has been dead for more than 3 years, her deeds are still circulating on the Internet.
The African male lion "Bad Boys" is by far the largest male lion group. This group consists of six male lions, who swept through the Sabisen Reserve in South Africa at that time and gained absolute control of at least seven large lions. In one year, these six male lions killed more than 1 lions, large and small. All these data reveal the fact that the "bad boy group" was invincible in the wild environment of South Africa at that time.
So, can such a powerful "bad boy group" beat 1 spotted hyenas? I think this should be divided into two situations, one is realism and the other is idealism. Below, let's analyze these two situations respectively.
First of all, let's look at the first situation-idealization
The so-called idealization is to put aside many factors in reality. First of all, let's see if the number of hyenas can reach 1.
The spotted hyena is the most common social carnivore in Africa. In the hyena group, the larger female is the leader of the group. Although the hunting of spotted hyenas is usually carried out in small groups (usually in groups of 3-5), their group members will vary with the size of their prey. For example, when hunting medium-sized antelopes, 3-5 are usually enough, but when hunting zebras, a large herbivore, the number of group members will usually be more than 1.
The group members of the hyenas are also related to the size of the hyenas. Usually, a hyenas group has more than 1 members. Up to now, there are as many as 92 known hyenas (adult hyenas). This hyenas group comes from Masai Mara, Kenya, East Africa. There are about 7 adult male hyenas in this huge group.
that is to say, in the wild state, it is possible for the number of hyenas to reach 1.
idealized battle result
As we have analyzed above, the probability of 1 spotted hyenas in groups exists, so this number is not idealized. Therefore, idealization is to put aside the fear of death, that is to say, these 1 spotted hyenas unite as one, without fear, and attack the "bad boy combination" one after another. In this case, on average, a lion has to fight 16 hyenas. Although the length of a lion is more than twice that of a hyena, and its weight is nearly three times that of a hyena, even a lion can't fight more than 1 hyenas without fear. This is "a good tiger can't stand a pack of wolves."
Therefore, the idealized result is that a "bad boy combination" composed of six lions can't beat 1 spotted dogs.
The second situation: Realisation
On the African prairie, the spotted hyena is one of the most "notorious" animals, which stems from the fact that many documentaries can edit it. In many documentaries, the image of hyenas is "bullying with more", using despicable "anal gouging", always grabbing other animals' prey and so on.
actually, the real hyena is not like this. First of all, it is because hyenas are gregarious animals. Secondly, "digging out the anus" is because the shoulder height of hyenas is not enough to reach the neck and other key parts of most animals, so they can only attack the relatively weak anus; Finally, there is the "robber". According to biologists' follow-up research, it is found that more than 95% of hyenas hunt for themselves. They rob other animals' prey and eat carrion, but only account for about 5% of its total food intake. The reason why they have these habits just proves that hyenas are "opportunists". They will not miss any opportunity to eat meat, and they are eating meat.
Although spotted hyenas rob the prey of other carnivores, the target they rob is not blind, but highly targeted, such as the lioness who lives alone, the leopard who lives alone, the cheetah and so on. That is to say, when a spotted hyena chooses a prey, it will choose an animal that has just finished hunting and consumes a lot of physical strength. This is the main reason why they often succeed in robbing.
However, the spotted hyenas never dare to snatch the prey of adult healthy lions, because the lions can instantly kill a hyena with absolute strength, and this hyena is often the largest female in the hyena group, that is, the "hyena queen", so the lion knows how to "catch the thief and get the king first". Once the hyenas are leaderless, they can only be scattered.
So, the reality is that if 1 hyenas meet six lions and a fight breaks out, the lions can quickly kill the larger hyenas. Although the hyenas are fierce, it does not mean that they are not afraid of death. Once a member is killed, they will not continue to attack.
Therefore, the reality is that when 1 hyenas meet the "bad boy group", they will give up the attack because their members are spiked. That is to say, the "bad boy group" composed of 6 lions can beat 1 hyenas.
Summary
The hyena and the lion are carnivores in the same habitat, and they are social animals, so they are hostile from birth, and the hyena is also the animal that has the most friction with the lion. Under normal circumstances, the lion will not let go when he sees the hyena, and the hyenas will not let go when they see the single lioness.