Lions are predominantly savannah animals, they also thrive in grasslands, dense bush, and woodlands.The male lion is much stronger than the female. Lion and lioness playing together is a heartwarming sight. They engage in playful behaviors such as chasing each other, pouncing. Yes. Lions alone are afraid - their female lionesses. Lion prey includes antelopes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo, and other grassland animals. By hunting together, lions are able to exhaust and kill their prey lion is quite deadly, buffalo are downright huge. The only way for the lion to kill the animal would be to bite its neck, but to do that it would have to knock the buffalo over Lions are known to hunt and attack buffalo, especially when they hunt in prides. Buffalo are among the larger prey animals that lions target, and these interactions are common in the wild, as lions rely on hunting to obtain food.