And people aren't necessarily that interested.
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Deer also get their cripples and retards trimmed by cougars, wolves, and bears (humans aren't needed, eat your cows and chickens you greedy fucks).
ANY species with no predators, a high birth rate, and a low infant mortality rate, will destroy the land they live on. INCLUDING HUMANS, who have no predators but each other. But humans really, really need one or three.
I only know the movie, never saw any series. The movie does suggest that the birth of Simba is just the last straw, but doesn't elaborate on why there would have been friction between Scar and Mufasa before Simba's birth. And he had already been dealing with the Hyaenas for a while, as they seemed to be quite familiar with him coming and feeding them.
Agreed, that's my point. Its not unique to them the barren wasteland of their location. Its just them being left alone there to fuck and eat without any check on their behavior that nature would give.
They've been anthropomorphized, so they should have morals and higher thinking to not do that, but that's the issue with humanizing animals in fiction. The line where their instincts and nature has to be ignored for the story to function.
AFAIK, nothing in the sequel or series is at opposition with the movie's canon and fills in a lot of gaps in it, so I think its a decent explanation of how things ended up. With Scar being the neglected son his entire life to him meeting the literal devil in the form of a scarred lion filling his head with envy of the throne and giving him his own scar to mark him as "evil." Which is how the first coup attempt ends up happening.
They've been anthropomorphized, all right. I doubt hyaenas enjoy the kind of low infant mortality rate humans do. There's probably no way they'd really get that overpopulated, just like human populations were regulated and stable before the Industrial Revolution, the way the Sentinelese are teeming and overrunning their island (most of their infants die, some get eaten by monitor lizards, etc.)
And they had him meet the devil? Lol. That's pretty out there, but hey, storytelling. But it's not like such royal jealousy hasn't been a thing in real life, with real life princes. Not to mention other stories almost exactly like this one, ie, Hamlet, the Ramayana. I consider the latter to actually be closer to the plot; in that one, the uncle murders the King and banishes the Prince, but his girlfriend opts to go into exile with him. They do stuff, then she gets kidnapped by a demon, and Rama gets help from the King of the Monkeys and his people - Timon and Pumbaa - rescue the girl, and the lot of them go back to the Prince's home and vanquish the evil uncle (and the monkey king gets ascended to godhood for being helpful to a god in human skin.)
They also get to have litters though with a faster raising time. Which means even a decently high mortality isn't enough to slow.
Either way, during the Scar song we get to see there are hundreds of them somehow. So something is keeping their numbers up, even if only the main three ever get to be acknowledged.
Its a very weird Paradise Lost/Garden of Eden type of thing too. With him not only meeting the devil, but the devil's "friend", a fucking snake, is what gives Scar his scar and its outright called the "Mark of Evil" that slowly corrupts the bearer to lose the ability to see good/evil as distinct.
Its a dumb kids show still, but its a very not-kid level development for his character and adds a lot more tragedy to it beyond "jealous manchild destroys and steals everything."