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(06-13-2020, 12:27 PM)Nate121 Wrote: Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t cannibalism rare in lions? ( of course you have exceptions like the Mapogos and when KT was killed) but wouldn’t Lions meat be very lean and nutritious for other lions to eat? So why wouldn’t they eat other lions in a take over/ killing nomads ect? Would the meat not be higher quality for them than buffalo, hippo ect?
If the lions are hungary, they will certaintly eat a lion/cub which they kill, you can find plenty of videos of that, but they dont kill them because of food..
Lions dont see other lions and big cats, hyenas, as food, yet as competition, the same goes with leopards etc..
Leopard will kill other cub leopards and lion cubs, but not because of food, yet because of competition, smaller number of other leopards and lions in his area, better and easier for him. But when he does kill them, he will most likely eat them, if hes hungry.