Lions are often bullied by hyenas, but it is rare for lions to eat hyenas. Why?

In the fire nirvana of wild animals in Africa, lions rank first and hyenas rank second. Surely everyone has no opinion on this ranking? Whether in the headlines or in other places on the Internet, as long as it is about documentaries, we can often see the footage of hyenas and lions competing for food, especially when there are only a few female lions or single lions. Hyenas are braver, not only fighting for food, but also defeating lions. If they see their cubs, they will be killed directly. There are many videos of lions hitting hyenas, but why didn't they see lions eating hyenas? I summed up the reasons, mainly as follows:

1, hyenas are tough. First of all, don't be deceived by the value and name of hyenas. Hyenas are really ugly, and there are dogs in their names, so it is easy to think that their strength is similar to that of dogs we know, at best, a little stronger than dogs. If you think so, you are all wet. It's not its fault that the face value is low. Hyenas have a higher bite force than lions, and they are especially good at anal pottery skills. If the kung fu of people is used as an analogy, the lion's skill is like flying the dragon's eighteen palms, pouncing on it and biting it fair and square, and the hyena's skill is like kicking the crotch and throwing a knife, and being caught carelessly. Especially male lions, boys all know what it's like to be bitten by a 450kg hyena. Therefore, instead of desperately hunting hyenas, lions might as well beat an antelope to eat.

2. The meat of hyenas is not delicious. Compared with delicious herbivores, the meat of hyenas is hard and old. As a top hunter on the African prairie, lions can eat too much, so it is natural to be picky about food. This is easy to understand. For example, if we get 3000 yuan a month, we will draw a double happiness. When you can get 20,000 yuan, we will naturally switch to China. Will we pull back the double happiness? Hyenas are omnivores and often eat carrion, so they have a foul smell. Buffalo, antelope, wildebeest, etc. Eating grass all year round is easy to catch, tender and delicious. In contrast, all fools know to choose herbivores.

3, lions eat hyenas, in fact, lions often kill hyenas to kill chickens for monkeys, the purpose is to play a deterrent role, not to fill their stomachs. But when the lion is hungry and has not found a better choice, it is natural to eat hyenas. Let's take smoking as an example. You usually smoke Chinese cigarettes, but when you are stranded on a desert island, a pack of double happiness comes. Do you want it? Don't say it's a double happiness, even if it's a coconut tree or something, you are happy to fly. For this time, hyenas are not delicious, but after all, they are meat and can't eat grass, right?

To sum up the above reasons, it is an illusion to say that lions don't eat hyenas, or there is not enough information, because lions do eat hyenas less. Besides being bad, lions have to evaluate the cost of getting hyenas' meat, because if they are injured in the wild, it often means death. In addition to threats from rivals or natural enemies, more is wound infection. Once infected by germs, agree to the top of the comment area!