This doesn’t answer the primary concern though. Do male lions have the same hunt participation rate after being in a pride? All this paper talks about is strategy. Everyone knows male lions hunt, they have to before they get a pride. But what about after? Do they hunt at the same rate? Or just stop altogether?
https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/41825/Loarie_Lion_2013.pdf?sequence=1
New evidence suggests that the old ‘male lions just eat what the females provide’ trope is inocrrect.
New evidence? This is over a decade old
It’s new to ME. >:C
“New” is a relative term.
On the timescale of lion evolution, this information literally just came to light.
This doesn’t answer the primary concern though. Do male lions have the same hunt participation rate after being in a pride? All this paper talks about is strategy. Everyone knows male lions hunt, they have to before they get a pride. But what about after? Do they hunt at the same rate? Or just stop altogether?