[Rq-rules] Siz and Hit Points

[Tom Cantine]

I believe I have read that lions have learned to avoid humans, for the 
most part. Individual males sometimes kill for fun, and will go after 
humans on occasion, but packs of females are out to feed themselves and 
their cubs, and the risk/reward ratio isn't very good with humans. 
We're too scrawny to feed the pride, and too dangerous to be worth the 
effort. Lionesses are exceptionally good at hunting as a team, but 
their team tactics are optimized for herds of zebras, wildebeests, and 
the like.

I don't know about any actual battles between groups of humans and 
prides of lionesses, but I imagine it happens, especially if there's a 
dispute over a carcass. Packs of hyenas sometimes come into conflict 
with prides, and some nasty skirmishes result. But I don't recall if 
lionesses do much hijacking of kills; I know male lions do so often. I 
suspect that groups of human hunters have more trouble with hyenas or 
lions than with lionesses. Unless the humans are trying to hijack the 
lionesses' kill.

In any event, I expect it would be an extremely ugly fight.

On 31-Oct-06, at 3:48 PM, Anders Swenson wrote:
>
> Of course, Tigers are pretty solitary. Lionesses, on the other hand, 
> hunt in
> teams. What are the recorded behaviours of lion packs against hunting
> parties, anyone know?
>
> --Anders
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