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After watching a video about African wildlife a student notices that there were a lot of grasslands (producers) hundreds of zebras(primary consumer's) and only a few lions (secondary consumers) the student asks why lions since they are so big and fierce do not take over and become higher in number then any other animal in the grasslands like zebras using what you know about food chains how can you answer that?

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Lions are near the top of the food chain and get their energy by eating zebras, but each time energy moves up a level a lot is lost as heat and waste, so only a small amount of the grass's energy reaches the lions. Because of that—and because lions need more food, space, and have fewer babies than zebras—there can only be a few lions but many zebras.