Resumen de The lion does not sleep tonight: he's hunting
Two studies reveal that lion behavior is much more diverse than people thought. Martha Lyke of the University of Texas at San Antonio and colleagues collected genetic data from 164 lions, including 90 members of 11 prides, allowing her to figure out which males fathered which cubs. Of 34 cubs with known fathers, 14 were sired by outsider males--more than a third. The females were more likely to mate outside the pride if there were fewer controlling males within it. Hunting behaviors also vary in a big way. In the Serengeti, the females take the lead, hunting in packs on the open plains. Males don't help, and simply take food from the females, says Scott Loarie of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford CA. The females make the kill and then the males slope over, eat their fill and then sleep. Loarie and his colleagues studied lions in Kruger National Park in South Africa, which is a more typical African landscape than the Serengeti because it has a lot of dense vegetation and woodland.
