Lions versus Hyenas

Lions versus Hyenas

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 1, 2021

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

65%

Original Title

Lions versus Hyenas

Production Companies

NDR Naturfilm, Doclights

Director

Reinhard Radke

Description

For carnivores a few bites of nutrient-rich meat can last you for days, so it's worth putting in a lot of effort and taking a certain amount of risk. All predators are therefore inherently in competition. With this in mind, it's no surprise that lions and spotted hyenas aren't exactly "best friends"! Lions and hyenas have a fundamental problem with each other that goes far beyond “normal competition”: both hunt the same prey in the same habitat and are therefore each other's fiercest evolutionary rivals. And because both are very powerful in combat - each in their own way - this competition is always latently deadly. The stuff that dramas are made of...