Question

Larger lions have 15,000 kcal on average to expend per day and need to gain more than that to survive. If lions can only hunt less than 3 times per day, explain how lions obtain food with the lowest cost and greatest energy benefit.

Answer 1

Wildebeest and Zebra.

Step-by-step explanation:

Wildebeest and Zebra are the hunts which gives huge amount of energy and lowest cost of energy because Wildebeest gives 25000 available energy and 10000 energy cost to hunt and 15000 amount of energy remain while Zebra gives 170,000 while 55000 energy spend on the cost to hunt and 115000 is available energy to the lion that is enough for the lion per day energy requirements.