You really got to wonder with lions having such a low success rate at hunting while being pack hunter and having pretty bad survival rates to adult hood if they may be on the way out on the evolutionary scale. Also I think cheetahs may eventually turn into pack animals if they survive these coming centuries. Siblings tend to stay together and hunt together, all it would take is for them to adopt a free mating strategy in groups like chimps do, and you’re talking about a gang of anywhere from like 3-10+ cats that can chase you at 60 miles per hour, that’ll be a nightmare for prey.
Now I’m gonna watch reruns of 00’s animal planet