Whenever Animal World broadcasts its African chapter, the most unmissable thing is the battle between lions and hyenas, not for anything else but to fill their own stomachs.
On the African savannah, hyenas are generally called "Africa's second brother". Although it is a joke among netizens, it is also officially recognized that hyenas are slightly less powerful than lions, but they are one of the most powerful animals in the world. A position above ten thousand people. One of the famous stunts of hyenas is "anal digging", otherwise they will give you a "group anal digging". Even if the lions are faced with the siege of the hyena group, they must sit on the ground carefully to protect themselves. There is no way, whoever lets the hyenas just play dirty tricks!
There is another terrifying thing about hyenas. Unlike most predators, they do not kill their prey directly in one shot. Most cats hunt by strangling or biting the spine, waiting for the prey to die before eating. But hyenas are not like this at all. Hyenas are opportunists. They will look for every opportunity to seize food and "take it for granted."
Therefore, hyenas always catch up with their prey and take one bite at a time. Hyenas do not care about the life and death of their prey, so a very terrifying scene will occur. When the hyena eats, the prey has not completely died. Isn't death very cruel? There is no way, this is the law of nature, natural selection of the fittest survives, and hyenas have adapted very well on the African savannah.
On the African grasslands, lions are in direct conflict with hyenas. Due to survival pressure, lions have gradually formed a way of living in groups during the process of development and evolution. They are also the only cats that live in groups. animal.
There are one or two male lions in a group of lions, one of which is the king and the other one assists in managing the group. Usually, these two male lions are brothers and were once driven out together. The lions wandered together on the African savannah, and finally defeated the leader of another lion group together, and became the lion king. The remaining members are 7-12 female lions, and the rest are the next generation of lion cubs in the pride. Female lions work in teams to hunt, while male lions are responsible for protecting the pride from intrusion.
Generally speaking, there are more members in a hyena group than lions, and they come in groups to snatch prey from lions. If there are fewer female lions, they are likely to take their own. If you give away your prey, you might even have your anus dug out by a hyena. However, leopards on the African grasslands do not dare to try such behavior. First of all, leopards live alone and are more than one weight inferior to lions. Facing a single female lion, leopards are not necessarily opponents.
It does happen that lions and hyenas snatch leopard prey. Therefore, the leopard does not eat immediately after hunting, but takes the prey to a tree and hangs it as quickly as possible. This can avoid the robbing behavior of hyenas. . Hyenas are completely helpless as they cannot climb trees. Lions, leopards and spotted hyenas are all top predators, and they compete with each other. Although their strengths are different, they are all on the same level and have no natural enemies.