Why weren t the hyenas who robbed the lion of food and bullied the lone lioness eliminated by the li

Hyenas are known for not being picky eaters, in general, today's predators do not eat their own kind, cannibalism and cannibalism are typical characteristics of prehistoric predators, and the current cannibalistic hyena is the only one among mammals.

There are hyenas eating hyenas**, only one of several hyenas is there to concentrate on eating, and the other two will come over and smell unwillingly, bite a little meat and chew it, which is completely different from the way hyenas usually eat other species, the guy who concentrates on eating also eats from the neck, not disemboweling like cattle and sheep, and eating their favorite internal organs. In the process of a few minutes, the belly of the four hyenas was not opened, and the guy had a disgusted expression on his face while eating, and hyenas who are not picky eaters are so reluctant to eat their own kind, not to mention the big cats who are picky eaters.

I once watched a very early animal documentary, and I remember that it said why lions don't eat hyenas easily, and it is said that hyena meat lions eat and are prone to epilepsy. It is supposed to be a parasite in the body of a hyena, and once infected with this parasite, it will eventually enter the brain of a lion, and the onset will be like having epilepsy.

In the animal documentary, for some reason, or in order to justify the hyena's name, the concept of scavengers is blurred, and the commentary says that all those who eat the carcasses of other animals are scavengers, even if they are prey just killed by other species, and they are also said to be scavengers.

Is there such a thing as a scavenger? Anyway, they all eat corpses, and they don't just eat completely fresh meat.

As a standard scavenger, the hyena has the strongest scavenging ability among its several subspecies. Humans are now extracting the blood blood of the striped hyena, hoping to extract a super antiviral serum from it, the striped hyena carries very terrible bacteria because it often digs graves and eats the already highly decomposed corpses, but the striped hyena itself is completely immune.

In addition, the bite force of hyenas has been misreported for a long time, and generally predators will test the bite force of their canine teeth, whether hunting or fighting, they use their canine teeth. Predator molars bite force is rarely tested. But the spotted hyena because of the ability to bite the bones is amazing, the researchers have specifically tested their molars bite force, the test results are of course very surprising, can bite the elephant bones of the hyena molars bite force, is indeed much higher than other predators, but the hyena mortar bite force is also mistaken for canine bite force, as a result of the Internet began to circulate, the hyena bite force is much higher than that of lions and tigers, in fact, the canine bite force hyena is not stronger than other species, It is even more unlikely to be higher than the bite force of the canine teeth of a lion and a tiger.

The hyena molars bite force is amazing, in fact, it is also a characteristic of scavengers, scavengers are also bone-eating animals, prehistoric animals are huge, predators will leave a large number of prey bones after eating, which provides an opportunity for bone-eaters, scavengers and bone-eating are inseparable, so the scavenging hyena retains the molar-bite force of bone-eaters.

Because there are many hyenas and their reproductive ability is very strong, and the lion has become accustomed to the presence of hyenas, they have not been exterminated by lions.

Male lions can kill lone hyenas at will, but lions don't eat them when they don't run out of food. One is that lions mainly feed on herbivores, which are larger in size and taste better. Hyenas sometimes eat carrion, and it is easy to cause disease with germs and viruses.

Hyenas are often presented in groups, and lions are easy to be killed by the hyena group when they are alone, and a single lion will not provoke the hyena group.

One of the hunting traits of lions is that they don't think about the direction of the wind, and one out of five times the lion will eventually win. Once the prey is caught, it simply has no chance to escape. Lions usually suffocate a large animal by biting it by the throat or its mouth.

All members of the lion pack participate in the hunt. However, when there is little prey or the animals are small, there is more likely to be an argument between lions, but serious injuries are rare. Adult male lions require 7 kg of meat per day, while adult females require 5 kg per day.

Lions share range with many other carnivores such as cheetahs, spotted hyenas, leopards, and dingoes, all of which may feed on the same prey as lions. These animals tend to hunt animals weighing no more than 100 kilograms, and the lion is the only animal in the region that usually kills animals weighing more than 250 kilograms. Unlike other carnivores, lions often kill well-being prey.

The hyena has too strong a body odor, and the lion has no appetite for food. Spotted hyenas are considered to be the potential strongest contenders for lioness due to their large nocturnal predators. However, hyenas do not stalk like felines, and they usually aim at underage prey or sick animals that are easy to hunt.

Lions practically benefit from the presence of hyenas, since about 81% of the lions' food is killed by hyenas, and then lions rob the hyenas.

The meat of hyenas is old and woody, and there is a taste, and lions do not eat hyena meat until they are hungry. Since hyenas are also very fond of carrion, they have a taste on their bodies, and the lion does not like it very much. In addition, they are mutually inextricably opposed, and many times the lion just bites the hyena to death and does not eat it, but it is different when it is difficult to endure hunger, after all, it is important to save life.

Because the hyena is a scavenger, its meat itself carries a lot of bacteria, and it is easy to get sick if it eats a lion, so the lion generally only bites it to death, and does not eat its meat.

Because hyenas often eat some decaying animals, so that there are a lot of bad substances in their bodies, and lions are particularly afraid of being infected by these things, so they want to block the infection, so they will not eat it.

The hyena is also a very ferocious presence in the grasslands. Even the lion of the king of the forest would not want to clash with them unless it had to.

Lions eat hyena meat, but compared to lions, they will not easily go to war with hyenas, unless there is a food competition, and lions will not eat hyena meat easily, unless they are hungry. Therefore, it is difficult to see the style of painting lions eating hyenas.

The skin and flesh of hyenas are thick and have a special sour taste, so hyena meat cannot enter the eyes of lions unless it is absolutely necessary. In comparison, the meat of bison and antelope is much tastier.

The hyena has a lot of bacteria on its body, and its ancestors are scavengers, so eating corpses is a big hobby of hyenas, and the stench on the hyena will make the lion look away. Unless it's a territorial issue that threatens what lions see as life, lions don't want to confront hyenas.

Ordinary lions are also reluctant to waste their physical strength. On the one hand, the meat of the hyena is really not delicious, and on the other hand, the lion also feels that it is not honorable to win the hyena. Therefore, the lion will generally bite the leader of the hyena directly, and then the lion will repeatedly check whether the hyena is really dead after biting the hyena to death, because the hyena is particularly cunning.

Some lions, just in case, will be particularly temperamental and add a few more bites to the hyena carcass.

In fact, there is another particularly important reason why lions do not eat hyena meat. That is, hyena meat is actually not delicious. Imagine if the meat of the hyena was too delicious, the hyena would have been eaten by other animals a long time ago, not to mention that the hyena would have the opportunity to steal the lion's food and eat the lion's children.

Lions usually prey on relatively large prey, such as bison, antelope, zebras, and even young hippos, elephants, giraffes, etc., and of course small mammals, birds, etc. Sometimes, they will take advantage of their size to take advantage of other carnivores, such as a leopard that appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time, and even killed the other person for it. In addition, they will eat the carrion of animals.

First of all, the lion generally does not take the initiative to kill the hyena, because the advantage is not large, it is easy to hurt herself, generally the male lion shoots, the hyena generally does not dare to harass the male lion even if there are more, compare the gap between the male lion and the hyena, basically one bite, the male lion directly bites off the hyena's tibia, so there is basically no risk of backbiting. As for why hyenas are not eaten, there is no evidence that they are not eaten in cases of extreme hunger. It's just that in the presence of other food, the taste of hyenas is not to lion's lion's lion, if the lion is for the purpose of predation, I believe that they will eat it, but if it is just to kill and deter other hyenas, after killing, they will hang their corpses and show off everywhere!

Because lions hate the smell of hyenas, just as people don't like the smell of poop

The only explanation can only be that the meat of hyenas is not tasty, and lions do not eat it until they are extremely hungry. Animals act on instinct, and animals do not have the ability to think rationally, so when rats smell fragrant things, they will definitely eat them, and they will not think about whether this is food or poison made for them by humans. So, if hyena meat is delicious, there is absolutely no reason why a lion should not eat it.

The same is true of fox meat in nature, and those who breed foxes in captivity only take their skins and cannot sell their meat, and the meat of foxes can only be processed into animal feed. There was once such a story, we all know that many people hate the shrewdness and stinginess of Shanghainese, there was once a Shanghai educated youth who went to the Northeast forest area to cut wood, the local Northeast townsman teased him, deliberately sold him a complete peeled fox meat at a very cheap **, Shanghai educated youth outside this fox meat and fragrant dog meat is about the same, just take advantage of the Spring Festival family leave, not far away thousands of miles to take the train back to Shanghai, the result is cooked, no matter how much seasoning and cooking wine is put in, it still stinks, and the neighbors of the whole lane all ran to his house to scold his mother!

Not all animal meat is delicious, for example, among the four major fish, silver carp is the most unpalatable, not only the meat taste is light but tasteless, but also has an earthy smell, so the four major fish, silver carp is the cheapest.

The lion's main food is herbivores, do not eat other animals, the lion often kills it, but does not eat hyenas, but it does not mean that it does not eat at all, I have seen lions eat hyenas**, lions only eat hyenas when they are hungry and crazy, and the others only kill and do not eat.

There is only one.

Of course, the hyena will just run away when it comes to snatching food, because it will not waste any effort to hunt when there is food, and if it is a lot of hyenas to snatch food, it will give up, after all, two fists are hard to beat four hands, but when hyenas are rampant.

The lion will come out and kill the hyena leader.

Why don't you eat sick dogs? It's because, uh, lions probably aren't particularly fond of mercenary dogs as food.

** is the sideburns dog. Bald, lewd.

Because sideburns dogs eat corrosive meat all year round, their own meat is more sour and unpalatable. If the lion is not hungry and crazy, he will not eat sideburns dog meat.

Including other animals, they also do not eat sideburns dog meat.

Lions do not prey on hyenas, 1 is a matter of taste. 2 is that the hyena army is also very strong, if it really fights. It is estimated that the Lions will not take advantage of it.

Hyenas are scavenging social animals, eat rotten meat every day, and it is estimated that their own meat also tastes like that, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, lions do not want to provoke fierce carnivorous social creatures.

The lion and the hyena are two enemies with a deep blood feud, and the hyena often steals the lion's prey, you will ask, the lion is much larger than the hyena, why is the hyena robbing the food? That's because hyenas have a dominant advantage in packs, and lions are usually very tired after hunting, so they are naturally no match for hyenas. The numerical advantage is the main reason why lions do not prey on hyenas.

But lions sometimes attack hyenas.

Why don't tigers eat wolves and lions don't eat hyenas? After reading it, I realized that the tiger lion is so smart!

Who said that hyenas eat and live in groups more hyenas than lions and ants bite elephants.

Say half right, the main reason is that it has been said many times on TV, and the scientific answer in history is also correct, they are the old enemies of the African savannah, no matter whose cubs the other party finds will bite to death and not eat, except for the premise of hunger, hyenas rely on teamwork, they will only test the strength of the other party, and will take the initiative to attack the group after discovering the advantage, but they will not provoke the male lion, especially the young male lion, and then the leader of the hyena is the opposite of the lion pack, the hyena is a female leader, and there will rarely be a male, Because females are needed for solidarity and teamwork, to add that hyenas have a bite force that is not inferior to that of lions, and they can drag a carcass several times their own weight and walk a long distance, which lions cannot do.

None of the cats eat carnivores, just as tigers don't eat wolves. I don't eat it if I bite it to death.

Would you, a healthy man, eat a sick and dead pig?

<> hyena harass the lion pack, and the lion only kills it and does not eat it, why is that? In fact, after a long period of observation, hyenas and lions often snatch food from each other. It's not that the hyena will unilaterally harass the lion, but the lion will also snatch the hyena's victory when the hyena is weak.

The wild animals of the African savannah are all chance hunters, and since they can get food by robbery, there is no need to hunt anymore, after all, they can eat ready-made food by driving away their opponents. At the same time, although there is a huge disparity in size between lions and hyenas, only male lions can really cause fatal injuries to hyenas. Male lions are often the laziest of the pack, and only take action when they hunt large prey, driving away other males and other intruders who have invaded their territory.

As long as it has something to eat, whether the other lionesses or lion cubs have something to eat is not something it considers.

So the hyena probably has more than half the chance of snatching the prey from the lioness. Because of this, after the success of the lions, the hyenas will look around, ready to grab. Why don't lions eat hyenas, it's not that lions don't eat hyenas, but that lions have the confidence to catch food again after losing it.

But the hyena is different, it can eat anything, as long as it is placed in front of the hyena, it can eat, and its strong bite and digestion ability make it possible for the hyena to chew bones and digest food. I once watched a documentary about the great drought that came out of the African savannah, for the lions, all the prey disappeared, and when there was no water and no food, the lions began to eat the carcasses of their companions. I believe that many friends have watched this documentary.

So, it's not that lions don't have hyenas, they just haven't reached the limit of eating hyenas yet. Just like people, who still eats grass roots and tree bark now, but when they reach the limit, as long as they can eat it, it will become food. So I personally think that the main reason why lions only kill hyenas and don't eat them should be that hyenas may not taste good.