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and then realize that man is easy prey. When this occurs, all the lions in the pride must be destroyed or they will continue to stalk and kill people.”
Nature on the high plain is cruel and self-serving, as it is everywhere. The lion social structure is basically a group of females with their young. The males roam the periphery, sometimes participating in the hunt.
They will kill cubs at an early age if the lioness does not hide them well enough. The survival rate for a lion cub in its first year is less than 50 percent. Its chances of reaching adulthood are no more than 20 percent.
They nurse for a year and at about six months they start “helping” at the kill. "They are really a nuisance,” Rood said. “They spoil hunt after hunt by charging too soon but they are allowed to participate since this is their training.”
Mongoose Society
Lions band together because numbers increase their chance of hunting effectively.
More complicated is the structure of mongoose society, and this is the area that the Roods have been researching for 12 years. Not all mongooses are social, but those that are have a highlydeveloped society.
They do not need company to forage, as their food is mostly dung beetles, found
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