I saw an outdoor show a while back that was about lions.
There were two males that were the head of a pride.
5 other adult males came along and waited until
nightfall then came in and attacked. They killed
one of the males and really chewed up the other one.
The question is this highly unusual to see this
many males together? Now that they have taken over
the pride will they now sort out who is going to
be the head and the rest move on?

I'm a Nature Channel wannabe also, but they will most likely kill any cubs present to put the lioness' in heat ASAP to begin their own offspring. As to who or which of the gang will be dominant, they have a way of working that out real quick.



Did see a show recently where 3 males went from pride to pride and did their thing over a period of time, abandoning the current pride to travel to another territory, but this was considered abnormal behavior.



Nature has a way of working things out...

I saw a nature show years ago where they talked about that it was more the norm now in certain areas in africa where two brothers would displace the dominant male of a pride and share the females between them. They also showed a couple of cases where three brothers would do that also. The naturalist on the show thought that it was an adaption to allow the family genes to be passed on.

I think we saw the same show but I thought they killed all the cubs..

In the one I saw they also killed all of the cubs to force the females to come into heat.