Why are lions social animals?

[Pckts]

(11-08-2015, 12:57 AM)Pantherinae Wrote: Okey @Pckts where I read this it just said the females where tested, nothing about males.

Still Jon Grinnell's studie showed something different, males would approatch even outnumberd 1:3, and there is videos where a large male is challenging 4 males, but also where on male is running away from two. I'm sure it depends much on induviduval males. 

Those dummy tests are not accurate IMO, there is nothing natural about the Lions behavior towards the dummy, I've seen countless interractions between lions in the wild and captivity and it's not The same. 

The lions seemed confussed about The whole thing.

The dummy tests seemed very realistic to me, it was astonishing to see the golden maned male refuse to approach the dark maned dummy and the female abandon the golden male to go off with the black maned dummy when they threw him in the jeep and drove away with him.
On the flip side, the black maned male and female went straight toward the Male dummy and it was actually the female who begin the attack but the male was right there with her and they didn't stop until the dummy was completely removed of its "skin" and was unrecognizable. Reply