A PRIDE of lions has emerged victorious from a ferocious two-week battle with a pack of hyenas in the Ethiopian desert. The two groups of animals had been locked in almost daily combat as they struggled for supremacy but the lions finally prevailed, the state news agency reported on Monday. “The king of the jungle cut down 35 hyenas and drove off the rest. Six lions were also killed in the fight which was considered the rarest and most notorious in recent memory,” the agency said. Ethiopian television footage of the fighting, aired on Sunday, showed the desert sand billowing as lions and hyenas tore at each other in furious battle under a cloudless sky.