Hunger in the Jungle

In a jungle called Tatankum, hunger strikes and animals die from hunger and thirst, but there is more to the deaths than just hunger and thirst. Jackal, the most ignorant, becomes the most curious animal in the jungle and decides to conduct his own investigation as to why the animals are being slaughtered because he believes that one of the animals is responsible for the slaughtering. So he decides to conduct his own investigation, and most of the leads he obtains lead the murders to Lion; but is it really Lion who kills the animals, and for what good reason would he be killing them?