That discombobulates the local lions, which often use this cover to hide when hunting zebra. To compensate, the lions switch to hunting buffalo, which are more dangerous, but less fleet of foot.

Researchers at Lion Country Safari entice lions to chase and "kill" lures in order to better understand how they hunt. That knowledge could help save the species in a crowded world of the future.

The lions, which are ambush predators, rely on the tree cover to stalk and hide before pouncing on zebras. Less tree cover means lions are not as successful at ambushing their prey.

Lion vs. Wildebeest: How Lions Hunt as a Pride Lions may not have the cheetah’s speed or the leopard’s forest cover, but they have other tricks for hunting prey.

(YouTube/@Maasai Sightings) “A lion pride in Serengeti were hunting zebras and a lioness decided to stand in front of the zebra stampede and try to catch one only to get trampled by the stampede.

A remarkable scene unfolded along the Mara River in Kenya as a zebra's fight for survival against nature's predators was caught on camera. Antony Ketikai, leading a tour near the river, witnessed the ...

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In fact, from 2003 to 2020, the number of zebra kills by lions declined from 67% to 42%, while the number of buffaloes killed by the cats climbed from 0% to 42%, showing just how dramatically one ...