[quote]If anything, I think they'll refrain from showing much hunting because it's a show intended for young audiences. They want to keep violence out of it, at least violence as graphic as lions killing and eating an animal would be. But they are acknowledging that the lions hunt, at least.[/quote]
And zebras, gaselles and others have to live and somehow communicate with Kion/Simba/Nala, knowing that their children can be eaten any moment. I dunno how it works..
Maybe there are some rules that lions hunt only weak/sick or maybe most herbivores don't have strong family ties so they are not very upset if their relatives die.