Lions and hyenas have a deep rivalry, one can even call it bitter. They hunt on the same plains, track the same prey, and scavenge the same food; it just would not make sense if they did not fight over these things. These two species seem to look alike in these many ways, but hyenas and lions are completely different than one another. “The bad blood between lions and hyenas runs deep…” Brian Switek stated on Wired.com, his article explained how long the two mammals had fought over their food and prey. In this article, he stated that William Buckland had made a name for himself by finding hyena-gnawed bones in a European cave, along with lion fossils. As stated earlier, the two species often roamed the same lands, even then fighting over food …show more content…
Hyenas and lions have a list of differences: the alpha of the pack and pride, the way the pack or pride is treated in the natural habitat, and the way they have fought each other. The alpha hyena is a female, while the lion’s is a male (“king of the jungle”). Hyenas only cast out the weakest males, who wander in search of an accepting pack, yet the alpha lion casts out other male lions at the age of about one year, unless the lion challenges the alpha for the pride. Hyenas attack in groups, but lions and lionesses attack one-on-one. If the fight is between a lion and a pack of hyenas, greater chances are that the lion would win the fight against the canine scavengers. This strife occurs often because they hunt and scavenge in the same areas. The feline and the canine, as two carnivorous mammals that live in the same area, would have begun a rivalry in some amount of time even if they did not have their “bad blood.” As the reader can see at this point, the hyenas a far from alike the