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Direction: Read the following Passage' and Answer the Questions given after it.

Male lions are rather reticent about expending their energy in hunting-more than three-quarters of kills are made by lionesses. Setting off a dusk on at hunt, the lionesses are in front, tensely scanning ahead, the cubs lag playfully behind and the males bring up to rear, walking slowly, their massive heads nodding with each step as if they were bored with the whole matter. But slothfulness may have survival value. With lionesses busy hunting, the males function as guards for the cubs, protecting them particularly from hyenas.

Male lions protect their cubs

A)  from the members of their own species

B)  from hyenas only

C)  from hyenas as much as from other enemies

D)  more from hyenas than from other animals