KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -No predators hunt lions to eat them; however, they do have a few natural enemies, such as hyenas and cheetahs. Hyenas compete with lions for food and often try to steal their kills.

Detailed explanation-2: -In general, lions don’t eat, hunt or kill other lions. They will only eat another lion if times are desperate, like if there is a severe food shortage, and even then, a lion may only kill and eat the oldest lion in the tribe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Like all cats, lions are obligate carnivores, meaning they require meat to thrive. They require a high level of protein which they get from animal tissue. This also provides them with all of their amino acids, which their own bodies do not produce.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eating African lion meat is unusual around the world-including on the predator’s home continent, where the meat is not considered palatable, Hunter said. Yet there is a taste for meat of threatened wild animals in other parts of the world-"too many species to list, ‘’ said Allan.

Detailed explanation-5: -So, of course, lions, and tigers eat meat-they’re carnivores! At best, we can tolerate a little bit of meat in our diets, but our bodies thank us when we eat plant-based foods, and reward us with a reduced risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and some cancers.