Lions’ morality

Lions are the biggest bullies in Africa. Their morality is extreme realist. Examples of extreme realists in real life: Stalin, John D Rockefeller, Osama Bin Laden, Trump. These people have no principles when it comes to achieving success.

In Africa, lions can form mega prides so that they can take down any prey, even adult elephants and giraffes. However, there are limitations to their capabilities.

These three largest megaherbivores are usually off-limits for even large lion pride.

1. Rhinocerous (morality: idealist-oriented neutral)
   Rhinoceros are smaller than elephants but they can defend themselves better from lion pride. Rhinos are fast and can turn their bodies around 360 degree to defend against lions attacking the backsides of large prey (favourite lion’s strategy). On the other hand, elephants are slow and cannot turn around to defend their backs. Rhinos are least hunted in Africa.
2. Elephants (morality: mid to strong idealism)
   Elephants are very large to be attacked normally by lions. However, in extreme circumstances like drought, large lion pride resorts to taking down elephants from young to even adults. 30 lions usually attack subadult male elephants. However, they might take down adult female elephants under very special circumstances. Only a healthy bull elephant (fully grown) is immune to predation by even the largest lion pride. This is because its back is too high for all the lions to jump onto it.
3. Hippopotamus (morality: cuteness-oriented neutral)
   Hippos are the third largest after rhinocerous and elephants. Fully grown adults are usually avoided by lions but sometimes, adults do fall prey to lion prides. Adult hippos can easily crush a lion with its jaws but it is not fast enough to turn around and defend its rear from multiple lions. Hence, its only option is to buy time and escape to water. Having said that, hippos rarely fall prey to lions because they have thick skin, aggressive attitude and massive body size.