lions kill and eat just about any animal that they can overpower individually or collectively. and when in the mood, lions will eat entire clans of hyenas without any mercy or consideration. read more
For a lion, a hyena won’t actually be much of a well-earned meal or a snack craved for, even if the cat was starving at the height of the dry season – as a matter of fact, hyena flesh isn’t really that nutritious; so if a lion did kill a hyena, it wouldn’t gain much from eating it, for hyena flesh is indeed unlikely to provide the promise of food. read more
Lions can eat hyenas, and hyenas can eat lions, although it is more common for them to kill each other's young. Both are apex predators that live in the same areas, hunt and compete for the same food and even scavenge the same remains. read more