[Space] Social Pouncing Carnivores?

[SonofJohn]

Aint lions chasers?

How about Bats, they are pouncer and they form large colonies...

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by SonofJohn

Aint lions chasers?

No. Lions have crummy endurance, actually. They stalk as close as possible to their prey, run or leap a very short distance, and grapple. When they give chase, it's because this went wrong. By contrast, a cheetah will run down its prey from the outset. And lion(esse)s are often social while hunting, some taking position in the prey's path of escape, to intercept it in the event that the primary hunter's pounce fails.

Which isn't the same thing as lions being slow. By human standards, they're fast. By cheetah standards, not so much.

Lions don't pounce from above, though. For that, see leopards.