Buffalos, other gazelles and Warthogs form another substantial part of the diet. Lionesses often hunt in small groups increasing their success. They work as a team, using different hunting methods like circling the pray or waiting in ambush when other pride members start the attack. The chance was higher in the night then at daytime, and best when stalking a single wildebeest. The prey is attacked from ambush, thrown to earth and strangled.
Lions kill less young animals then hunting dogs or cheetahs, they concentrate on bigger animals.
Often they chase hyenas away from their kill, but a big group of hyenas may chase the lions from their supper. Lions eat 20kg or more meat at one time, but they don't feed every day. A lioness needs about 2700kg, a male lion at least 3600kg prey each year. They don't influence the population numbers of their prey animals, but in catching the weak and ill help to prevent the spreading of desease. In the last years many lions have died from deseases spread in from house cats.