[quote="Regulus"]If you can provide another reason as to how a thousand hyenas suddenly appear out of nowhere, then disappear as soon as Scar dies, please be my guest.[/quote]
I don't
need to provide you the evidence, because you can clearly see the end result. We're talking about the Lion King here,
so anything you can see in the movie is fair game. And if in one screenshot, I can count at least 40 hyenas just on one small section of Pride Rock, then guess what? There are at least 40 hyenas there at that spot in Pride Rock.
Source:
http://www.animationsource.org/sites_co ... /17410.jpgI'll be kind and not use "Be Prepared" as a source for the number of hyenas because for Disney, songs tend to break canon for their duration. But that screenshot I linked is not set during a song, so what you see is what happened. We see an army of hyenas not during a song, so therefore there is an army in the Pride Lands.
And it's also explicitly stated in TLKoB (again, outside of a song) that the lions were forced to over-hunt, largely due to the hyenas.
As for when they went afterwards? Ran away I guess. The Pride Lands looked deader than the elephant graveyard before that. Plus, with Scar's death, they don't have any obligation to remain in the Pride Lands.
So: Fact: Scar brought in an unnatural amount of hyenas into the Pride Lands. The lions are forced to over-hunt to compensate, and all the prey disappear. The now weakened savanna is helpless against the drought, which only kills off whatever didn't flee or die already. So yes, Scar is directly responsible for the destruction of the Pride Lands. The same way the HIV virus directly kills people: it doesn't kill them, it only kills their ability to defend themselves from every-day occurrences like the common cold. Without an effective defense, people die from a common occurrence. This is what Scar did to the Pride Lands: he disrupted the "circle of life", and when you stop the orbit of the circle, there's only one end: death.