Dar es Salaam. From the comfort of the safari trucks, tourists visiting the wild East African nation of Tanzania have witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody wars known in the animal kingdoms.

The original ‘Lion King’ had a racist hyenas problem. The new film fixes that, with mixed results. In the original animated Lion King, the hyenas were depicted as crass lowlifes that many ...

In the original Lion King, the hyenas play a central role in Scar’s plan to overthrow Mufasa and Simba, yet their history with Scar is left untouched in the prequel.

Other big cats fight the lions, unlike the hyenas, who served as the villains in The Lion King. The story behind the ‘Scar’ is even more interesting, while the rise of Rafiki and his guidance ...