Why do lions like to hunt in packs? Do they have predators in the African savannah?

Because lions have a natural habit, that is, they live in groups in the African grassland, they have no natural predators, and if they gather in groups, they are invincible.

Lions do not have an advantage in terms of speed, and although they run at speeds of more than sixty kilometers per hour and sprint at high speeds, their prey tends to be faster than them, so they can only resort to group encirclement tactics. Lions have few natural predators in the grasslands.

The lions did not enter the wider interior of Asia leaving us with many questions, is it because some mountains and rivers have prevented the spread of lions, and there is a lack of corresponding ecological pathways? This inference clearly does not hold water. We can see this by referring to the dispersal route of tigers.

The modern tiger began in East Asia and gradually spread to much of Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, where it coexisted with lions in the same habitat. The ability of tigers to spread in East Asia means that there are corresponding ecological pathways, so lions can also spread in the opposite direction to East Asia and to the interior of Asia along the path of tigers. But in fact, unlike what we think, there must be a deeper reason there.

After the Cambrian species, there were many organisms living on the earth, and various powerful predators appeared alternately, but after experiencing five mass extinctions, those super-large predators withdrew from the historical stage one after another, bringing unprecedented development opportunities to small and medium-sized predators such as lions, tigers, and leopards. So 1.4 million years ago, lions in East and West Africa rose rapidly. The population of lions grew rapidly and soon occupied all of Africa except a few parts of the Sahara Desert, becoming the strongest predators here.

After reaching saturation in the African environment, the lion spread through North Africa to southern Europe and Asia, eventually reaching the Indian subcontinent 20,000 years ago, so today's Asiatic lion is the closest to the lion in North Africa at the genetic level.

There is a big doubt, the modern lion rises quickly and spreads quickly. But why is it that if you go to Southern Europe, Central and Western Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, the pace is much slower, or does it come to an abrupt halt? The boss of the pack looks like a male lion, but in fact the lion pack is dominated by the lioness, and the lioness is the most suitable feline.

All lionesses in a group of lions are basically related to each other, and together they determine the size of the lion and the size of the territory, and the lion pack has roles such as defining territory and expanding territory.

The male lion did not have any territory before entering the main lion pack, and only after becoming the landlord male lion did he own all the territory of the original lion group. The male lion species has an iron law that it is necessary to gain territory and mating rights by fighting, and if the lion does not fight, it can be said that there is no land for wives. After the lions leave the native lion group, they go through a short wandering life, become strong in the wandering, and then challenge the male lion who has territory.

The male lion knows to hone his fighting skills from an early age. All the lion cubs in a group were born at the same time, so they have no shortage of playmates for each other. Of course, this model later formed a "super lion alliance", which laid the groundwork, basically a male lion alliance of more than 4 lions, and its members are all from the same group of lions.

The African savannah has a lot of meat to eat, and it is not developed there, which can provide them with some good living benefits, and this is how they grow in the African savannah for many years.

Although there are seven continents in the world, only Africa is the most suitable for the various environmental factors needed for the survival of lions, and Africa has vast grasslands that are suitable for lions to live freely.

Because their growth environment must be a tropical environment, they can grow better, and the environment in Africa is relatively hot, and it is a tropical rainforest climate, which is suitable for them to live.

Because the African savannah environment is particularly good and suitable for lions to grow, they will settle in the African grasslands.

Because only the environment in Africa is very suitable for the survival of lions, lions only live in African savannahs.

Many creatures on our planet have their own way of life, including us humans, we humans are social animals living in groups, and this way of gathering is one of the ways in which we humans choose to do so. And the same is true in our animal world, where we know that there are a lot of animals in many savannahs, and there are about a million animals living on the African savannah. The wildebeest is the most abundant, and the lion is one of the most predatory animals.

Why are lions only found in the African savannah? There are several reasons for this. <>

1. Lions are social animals. First of all, the first point is that lions are social animals, because only a large area can be suitable for such an emotional animal to survive here. And it is very territorial, if the animals of other races invade their territory, then the whole lion group will catch up and directly repel the attackers, the purpose of this is to protect the safety of the entire group, but also to protect the existence of the lion cub.

Because the lion cub is known as the future of the entire race, if there is no lion cub, then the whole group will have no future existence, just like the children of human beings are known as the flowers of the motherland. <>

2. A way for lions to reproduce. Secondly, another point is that the way lions reproduce also affects why lions only live in the African savannah. When the male lions reach adulthood, they are driven out of the lion pack to find their own lion pack, and there is only one adult male lion in the entire lion pack.

A wider geographical distribution can promote the reproduction of the entire ethnic group, and if the blood relationship is too single, it is not conducive to the progress of the ethnic group. <>

3. There is a huge food distribution in the African savannah. Last but not least, the African savannah is home to a large number of herbivores, including wildebeests, zebras, antelopes and bison, all of which lions love to hunt.

Because lions can only adapt to the environment of the African savannah and cannot survive elsewhere, lions are only found in the African savannah.

Lions are afraid of the cold and cannot stay in very cold places for a long time. In cold places, the body's metabolism needs a lot of energy quickly, and the cold areas have little food and are not conducive to predation, which cannot meet the needs of lions for food. This is also the result of long-term species evolution.

Because lions do not have the habit of hibernating, if they live in a cold place, they will not be able to find food to eat in winter, and they will not be able to survive at all.

<> "Why Some Lions Love to Climb Trees in the African Savannah."

First: the characteristics of trees.

The environment changes the habits of animals because they have to learn to live with their environment in order to survive, as is the case with lions in these two national parks, where trees are more abundant than elsewhere in Uganda and Tanzania, making it easy for lions to reach some of the larger trees.

Second: Shelter from mosquitoes and heat.

Lions are nocturnal animals, and it is very important for lions living in tropical Africa to escape the heat during the day, and although the ground is a good place in the shade of the lead trees, the temperature on the ground is not low, and it is obviously cooler to climb the trees.

Secondly, in Africa, there is a blood-sucking insect - the stinging fly, which is abundant and likes to fly low and feed on the blood of ground mammals, and this part of the lions that like to go up to the trees are much less likely to be bitten.

Third: hunt and evade.

The first is hunting, as the saying goes, stand tall and see far, and some lions will climb large trees in the evening to scan the situation of nearby herbivores in order to hunt effectively.

The second is evasion, in both reserves there are large numbers of elephants and buffaloes, both of which eat heavily and live in groups, so they often have to migrate, and the lions resting on the ground during the day are attacked by elephants and herds of buffalo, but when they climb the trees, they do not interfere with the water of the river.

Indigenous Africans routinely hunt with poisoned bows and arrows. This home-made bow and arrow was used in conjunction with poison to poison the prey when it was too weak to flee before killing the prey with a spear. Moreover, the poisons they use are not very effective, sometimes it can take up to several hours to have a miraculous effect, so after shooting the prey with a poisoned arrow, they have been tracking behind it, and only after the prey is poisonous that it cannot run, can it be caught.

Under these conditions, it is difficult for indigenous Africans to hunt large predators such as lions, because lions do not run away after being poisoned by arrows, but tend to fight back. The risk of using an inferior spear against a lion is too high.

Why are lions afraid of African natives? Don't blink, see is believing!

Hyenas and lions are both social animals, and a single lioness generally does not compete with hyena groups, because it is only half the size of a male lion, about 120kg, and adult hyenas are also more than 70kg. 3 adult hyenas will repel a lioness. Female lions are far less lethal than male lions.

Therefore, the hyena will not be afraid of the female lioness when the number series is three times that of the female lioness. But if there is an adult male lion in the pack, the hyena will obediently disperse. They won't risk their lives to fight lions.

Generally speaking, hyenas will not go head-to-head with male lions, because the size gap is too large, and male lions far exceed hyenas in attack power, and adult male lions can easily kill hyenas. Nor will the hyena pack compete with the lions at the cost of the lives of five or six of their companions.

Lion and spotted hyena, whichever side is alone will be bullied by the other. It can be said that a lion pack without a male lion guard will generally lose to the hyena, and in the case of a male lion guard, the general hyena does not dare to get close.

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Hyenas are social animals and at the same time hyenas are strong in their own right.

Adult male hyenas weigh 60-70 kg, and the bite force of the hyena's teeth is the strongest among existing felines and canines, and can bite off the leg bones of bison.

Cheetahs generally weigh around 50 kilograms, and at the same time, cheetahs can't beat hyenas when they live alone, let alone fight in groups.

As for the lion being afraid of hyenas, it is an exaggeration.

Adult male lions are 200-250 kilograms, and it is impossible for a hyena to win alone, and a lone lion may be killed by a group of hyenas, if it is a heads-up, or a group against a group, the hyena will not be able to beat the lion.

In addition, the claim that hyenas are saprophants is millions of years ago, in fact, hyenas only occasionally eat scavengers, and most of the time they hunt on their own, hyenas are the second most successful animals in the African savannah (the first is African wild dogs), but lions often steal food from hyenas and cheetahs (no way, people are strong).

The lion on the grassland hates hyenas very much, so why don't you kill them and hide them all the time?

Because the living conditions of lions are harsh, and a female lion can only give birth to one cub, its reproductive rate is very low.

There is a dry season. Lions live in the African savannah, there is a dry season every year, herbivores migrate, and lions have little food, so it is difficult for young lions to resist adulthood.

Because the chance of a lioness getting pregnant is so low, it is difficult for them to reproduce, and even if they are successful in pregnancy and give birth to their cubs, the survival rate of the cubs is very low.