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Lions typically ignore spotted hyenas, unless they are on a kill or are being harassed by them. There exists a common misconception that hyenas steal kills from lions, but most often it is the other way around, [114] and lions will readily steal the kills of spotted hyenas.
In Botswana's Chobe National Park, the situation is reversed as hyenas there frequently challenge lions and steal their kills, obtaining food from 63% of all lion kills. [144] When confronted on a kill, hyenas may either leave or wait patiently at a distance of 30–100 m (98–328 ft) until the lions have finished. [ 145 ]
A single spotted hyena can eat at least 14.5 kg of meat per meal, [20] and although they act aggressively toward each other when feeding, they compete with each other mostly through speed of eating, rather than by fighting as lions do. [21] Spotted hyenas can take less than two minutes to eat a gazelle fawn, [22] while a group of 35 hyenas can ...
While a threat for all predators, lions are killed disproportionately to the number of losses they are responsible for as opposed to hyenas and leopards. [3] [8] One reason lions are killed in retaliation more than other carnivores is because of their propensity to kill cattle more than sheep and goats. [3]
Like most predators, hyena attacks tend to target women, children, and infirm men, though both species can and do attack healthy adult males on occasion. The spotted hyena is the more dangerous of the two species, being larger, more predatory, and more aggressive than the striped hyena. The brown hyena and aardwolf are not known to prey on humans.
Kevin Rene Richardson (born 8 October 1974), known as "The Lion Whisperer", [1] is a South African YouTube personality, wildlife conservationist and self-taught sanctuary owner who works with lions, black leopards, spotted hyenas and striped hyenas.
In 2013, a lion killed a 24-year-old volunteer at a Central California animal park after it escaped from a feeding cage and attacked her while she was cleaning its enclosure area. The Associated ...
In the Kalahari Desert, they are often the dominant mammalian carnivores present because of this behavior and the relative scarcity of lions, spotted hyenas, and packs of African wild dogs. In areas where their territories overlap, brown hyenas may, on rare occasions, be killed by spotted hyenas and lions. [1]