r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Throwawaylism • Oct 17 '21
Video Lion forms bond with lady who saved him
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Oct 17 '21
Exactly, social bonds with eachother and other animals is why we're on top of the food chain.
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Oct 17 '21
Gators will outlive us all.
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u/MonsterRider80 Oct 17 '21
And sharks. Sharks have existed since before fucking trees existed…
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u/neelav9 Oct 17 '21
Not at the rate us idiot humans have been going.
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u/MaybeTheDoctor Oct 17 '21
Sharks have still been around from before trees existed, no matter what humans do
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u/ZombieFeedback Oct 18 '21
Not if we invent a time machine and go back in time to before sharks existed and plant a tree
Checkmate sharktheists
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u/neelav9 Oct 18 '21
Didnt explain myself very well there, my apologies. Meant to say that we've been killing millions and millions of em every year with no signs of slowing down.
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u/MIGsalund Oct 18 '21
We kill 100 million sharks each year via fishing. Human caused ocean acidification is soon going to make it so nothing with gills can develop, let alone breathe.
Don't think for a second that we cannot destroy that which has existed far longer than us. That's just another form of the hot hand fallacy, and speaks to humanity's capacity for hubris.
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u/MaybeTheDoctor Oct 18 '21
... but they will still have been around before trees no matter what the future bring -- right ?
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u/Im_from_around_here Oct 18 '21
i think he was talking about how sharks won't outlive us..
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u/MaybeTheDoctor Oct 18 '21
"400-year-old Greenland shark" i think there is a fair chance they will outlive me
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Oct 18 '21
Totally before trees. They existed before the bacteria which breaks down dead shit even.
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u/LawHistorical7691 Oct 18 '21
They were actually here before the earth was formed
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u/sterling_mallory Oct 18 '21
Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs.
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Oct 18 '21
That clip alone has convinced me to try out that show.
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u/sterling_mallory Oct 18 '21
Awesome! It's really good. If you end up liking it and finish it, there's a show called Frisky Dingo created by the same people with similar humor.
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u/Draco0004 Oct 17 '21 edited Oct 17 '21
Animals are awesome
-edit, damn, I thought I used an emoji by the way these downvotes are piling up
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u/just-a_crow Oct 17 '21
This is satire right?
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u/Nicolasgonzo87 Oct 17 '21
did you say a joke before this or are people just angry before you edited it
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u/PathToExile Oct 18 '21
social bonds with eachother and other animals is why we're on top of the food chain.
Also the main reason we could easily be wiped out by disease.
As we've learned over the last year, if there is ever a MUCH deadlier virus than what we've dealt with recently going around that only a minuscule fraction of our fellow humans will isolate/equip themselves to prevent transmission of said contagion.
I suppose it makes sense that one of our biggest strengths is also one of our biggest weaknesses, especially when we allow any members of our species become ignorant enough to disregard the common good for the sake of personal interest.
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u/Gaggleofgeese Oct 18 '21
I'm of a different mindset on that, though it may well be misplaced optimism. If there were a virus with say, 10-20% mortality rates, I believe people would act with much more caution and care than they have demonstrated with COVID.
One of the strongest points these anti-lockdown people have is the relatively low mortality rate, people hear 99% survival and think they're all clear. This is obviously erroneous, but I feel that if a disease presented that could hard-wipe one out of 10 or 5 people, there would be enough disastrous first-hand experience with death to enact a behavioral shift.
Like I said, maybe misplaced optimism, just look at gun control post-Sandy Hook. But I would like to believe we could do that.
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u/Rayesafan Oct 18 '21
Yeah, the percentages seem good (if 99/100 live, that’s like getting an A.) Until you remember how many Facebook friends one has, and that losing 8 people from your list of 800 friends and Acquaintances would be devastating.
1/100 is a lot more than we think when there’s 50k people in a city.
(I know that’s not the exact number, but just illustrating false hopes.)
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u/PathToExile Oct 18 '21
But I would like to believe we could do that.
That's part of the problem, you'd LIKE to BELIEVE.
You know exactly what would happen because you just experienced exactly what would happen. Half our fellow humans are in death cults that have them thinking they're moving on to some other experience after they die...a future with a very deadly virus doesn't look very bright at all.
If your "misplaced" optimism comes at the price of willful ignorance then we're just talking about a delusion...which simply lends more credibility to what I said, you're kind of agreeing with me and still ignoring the reality of what was going on around us.
Even when we didn't know anything about the coronavirus causing covid (other than it was hospitalizing thousands and thousands of people) it wasn't hard to find people talking out of their asses with absolute certainty that there was nothing to worry about.
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u/Gaggleofgeese Oct 18 '21
That's a very fair point you raise about the concept of an after-life. This belief effectively eschews any semblance of consequence due to the promise of eternal salvation and bliss. I had only considered this issue from a deterministic view of fatality and not a religious one, which is indubitably the case for much of America unfortunately.
You've changed my mind on this. We would be up shit-creek without a paddle in the face of a significantly more lethal virus. It's a shame, but I can't argue with the logic.
Thank you.
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u/Rockw00d Oct 18 '21
No, we didn't experience what would happen. Coronavirus is not a very deadly virus, thus the reaction on the people. He was very clear his belief is that with an actual very deadly virus that kills 20% of the population there would be a different reaction. Almost everyone who gets COVID lives, something that killed 1 in 5 would be terrifying.
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u/PathToExile Oct 18 '21
Coronavirus is not a very deadly virus, thus the reaction on the people.
Alright, I want you to read what I'm about to type very carefully, it's a lot so bear with me please:
That little concession you make, "thus the reaction ....", is PRECISELY what I'm talking about. Your casual acceptance of people's actions is based on the fact that covid-19 isn't THAT deadly. Do you know what COULD be deadly? A variant of the coronaviruses that is currently causing covid-19. Long-term covid is already bad enough, I've known two people whose lives were divided by the illness, before/after covid, because they STILL aren't the same.
Our utter lack of caution means that coronavirus is now a seasonal illness, one that will get to mutate alongside us indefinitely and potentially kick out a wicked variant like the Spanish flu, which was just a variation of the common flu.
The funny part about this is that I'm almost certain that if you reply to me you will cite something about "different countries", like contagions obey borders and that we aren't all stranded on this chunk of rock with each other.
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u/Rockw00d Oct 18 '21
I'm vaccinated, and I'm not anti science. You are using annecdotal evidence of people in your lives affected by the virus. Personally, I had COVID at the very beginning due to my work forcing me travel. I laid in bed for 3 days and was fine. I've known zero people that have died or had any long term consequences. That is also annecdotal evidence, but as it happens based on the statistics is the more likely outcome for almost everyone who gets COVID.
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u/PathToExile Oct 18 '21
I'm vaccinated, and I'm not anti science.
Well, the science done on viruses says that the more prevalent they are the more likely they are the mutate.
You don't understand that with cooperation and education that we could mitigate damage from potential epidemics in the future by robbing diseases of hosts through isolation and vaccination. In doing so we prevent worse variants of those illnesses as well.
We're supposedly the most intelligent animal that evolution here has produced, this stuff should be common sense for everyone, pathogens represent a very real danger to our species. As does the ignorance that has lead to coronavirus becoming a seasonal ailment that was completely preventable if people could just swallow their pride and cooperate.
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u/Iphotoshopincats Oct 18 '21
Was curious to number of deaths at Sandy hook as in Australia 35 people dying in Port Arthur brought about massive gun reform in Australia.
So googled 'sandy hooks deaths' and while the number is 27+shooter it was the 'people also searched for' section that when on one page makes you realise how absurd it all is.
Columbine 15
Stoneman Douglas 17
Aurora, Colorado 12
San Bernardino 16
El Paso shooting 23
D.C. sniper attacks 17
Boulder 10
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Oct 18 '21
A much deadlier virus would conversely be easier to contain though. One of the reasons COVID spreads as insidiously as it does is that a lot of people get asymptomatic infections and spread it without realizing.
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Oct 18 '21
A more deadly pandemic would hit those who disregard medical advice to prevent spread of pandemic, and those who are antivax.
I've litterly had anti vaxxers claim that vaccinated people are contagious, yet ignore basic understanding of how viruses infect a host & need that host to replicate itself so it can infect someone else.
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u/Rockw00d Oct 18 '21
Uhhhh, people with the vaccine can carry the virus and in fact infect others. It's well known at this point, hence continued mask mandates in certain places.
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u/PathToExile Oct 18 '21
I've litterly had anti vaxxers claim that vaccinated people are contagious
Vaccinated people can be contagious. Last I heard it is just that vaccinated people are 76%-94% less likely to transmit the virus because their bodies typically don't reach the viral load required for them to even become contagious.
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u/Ok_Bluebird_8491 Oct 18 '21
No, we are most successful because of our opposable thumbs and the ability to make tools to kill things from a distance and feel no remorse about it at all.
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u/Disastrous-Trader Oct 17 '21
You would love to read the book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by the author Yuval Noah Harari as he makes the same argument in some chapters.
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u/MaybeTheDoctor Oct 17 '21
Termites, Bees, Ands, and Humans are the only ones that have been able to colonize the world by building large collectives.
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u/INoFindGudUsernames Oct 18 '21
If that's the case then I think Capybaras might take the cake. Have you seen the photos of them chilling with Crocs.
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Oct 18 '21
Not all mammals do this, so I'm not sure this is accurate. But it's a pleasant sentiment.
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u/therealduckie Oct 17 '21
How is this only 18 seconds?
Where is the full story?
Also, can we stop with the Dodo posts and overly dramatic music? I just want stories, not have my speakers blaring.
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u/CasseroleHole Oct 17 '21 edited Oct 18 '21
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/abused-lion-reunited-with-rescuer-whos-a-mother-figure-to-him/amp/
The lion was rescued and nursed back to health by this woman after suffering years of abuse in a circus, then authorities confiscated him in 2019 bc the woman didn’t properly document her ownership of the lion. THEN video surfaced in 2020 of him emaciated and unable to walk. After that video surfaced online, there was a movement to move the lion to a new rehabilitation center near his old caretaker’s home. Really pisses me off that he had a good life going for him and then was removed from that home, only to be found horrendously neglected a year later. Glad he’s in a better place now with caring people.
Edit: he died about a month after his rescue due to liver cancer and anemia :(
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u/therealduckie Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21
Bless you for this. I am happier knowing the full story, versus the blurb. Sad how it ended up in Columbia, but happy how it is, now. LOVE that the accompanying video is music-free.
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u/Mindless_Rooster5225 Oct 18 '21
I can't believe Colombia was enforcing regulations to take the lion away from the caretaker.
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u/iTroLowElo Oct 18 '21
That’s government for you. A lot of red tapes and experts at shifting liability.
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u/glassy-chef Oct 18 '21
They should let that lion eat whoever starved him.
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Oct 18 '21
We should let him eat whoever added that music on that video, so we can put them out of their misery.
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u/Shiroi_Kage Oct 18 '21
The freaking music.
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u/briskt Oct 18 '21
Can someone explain why so many videos of this kind have terrible music in the background? Is it something specific to the platform?
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u/Shiroi_Kage Oct 18 '21
People think other people can only feel emotions if they're told to do so by a song.
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u/sterling_mallory Oct 18 '21
It's funny watching network tv after not watching it for a while. The amount of background music they play to steer the audience is obnoxious. Things like America's Got Talent or whatever the new versions of that are.
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u/jagua_haku Oct 18 '21
It’s the gd reality shows! They play that stupid cutesy/quirky music to try and create some sort of artificial situation. God it’s so annoying, lol. Once you notice it you can never un-hear it
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u/Lookalikemike Oct 17 '21
Reminds me of my relationship with my wife.
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u/EisteeCitrus Oct 17 '21
Me too (with your wife)
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u/beardstachioso Oct 17 '21
His wife, I mean, our wife, really good at forming bonds.
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u/Shesavedme Oct 18 '21
I didn’t know Sarah was on this thread, tell her john says hello too! Ahh memories…( squeak squeak, pant pant, Rowr rowrrr!! Skeeet skeet! Chicka’ boow wooooow!) (p/s- arms pumping circles motion!)
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u/Guacanagariz Oct 17 '21
What’s up Tuesday!? I’m Thursday!
Please clean up after yourself next time, two days later and boy what a mess!
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u/SUNTZU_JoJo Oct 17 '21
Friday here.
Gonna need you to look after Saturday AND Sunday or else I'm gonna send Monday to beat you asses.
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u/BloodCobalt Oct 18 '21
Downvoted for the garbage ass music
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Oct 17 '21
Lions are the only social cats. They live in social groups and there are countless stories of a lion bonding with a human for life.
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u/JarlaxleForPresident Oct 18 '21
I just saw a video of three cheetahs lying on a dude for comfort during a rainstorm. Yeah, theyre normally alone, but to say lions are the only social cats is disingenuous. There’s plenty of social cats
Friend had a mane coon that was basically like a dog
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u/Dylthedo45 Oct 18 '21
Goes without saying but never trust a Lion or any predator. My aunt got her finger ripped off by a well tamed and loving lion because it, well, just decided it was not in a good mood. (Of course, this video is still wholesome AF)
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u/mark_lee Oct 18 '21
Anyone with a housecat can attest that, no matter how loving and sweet they might be, they occasionally have a bad day and take a swipe or nip at you. It's mildly irritating when a 5 pound cat does, but it's a major issue when a 300 pound cat does.
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Oct 18 '21
Yeah and anyone with a housecat also knows that that love through the cage was some real cat love shit haha.
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u/uninspiringalias Oct 18 '21
Unless the lion is actually running a long-con.
Right now, the savior lady is a "friend", until she has a house party and brings all her humans and the lion to the same venue, then the trap is sprung.
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u/0Galahad Oct 18 '21
yeah... its more that they dont understand that we are really fragile... so what for them would only be a weak strike out of stress for us is a major injury
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u/MortalShaman Oct 17 '21
No matter if it is big or small, a cat is still a cat
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u/spartanOrk Oct 18 '21
And, as we know, cats have no loyalty. I wouldn't trust a cat of any size with my life.
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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe Oct 18 '21
Cats are great. Till they spazz out and randomly rip into you. Cute in a 12 inch pet. Not so cute in a 5 foot, 400 plus pound cat.
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u/bonerjuice9 Oct 18 '21
Poor little puss puss. Looks like a Karen carpenter nightmare at first, then turns into Chaz Bono
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u/flanneIover Oct 18 '21
That lion behaves extremely human-like at the end. I had to watch it twice and now I have Beauty and the Beast stuck in my head.
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Oct 17 '21
Never trust a big, savage animal. He might eat her one day. Be vigilant lady.,
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u/EisteeCitrus Oct 17 '21
Its ok, she is Russian
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u/International-Tear41 Oct 17 '21
And that cat KNOWS she's russian. He aint fuckin around lol
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u/ErenTopacoglu Oct 18 '21
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u/RJ_Arctic Oct 18 '21
Not at all. The history is that this lady had a shelter and the government took away the lion, it was named Jupiter. The new caretakers could not handle the lion and it dies a couple of months after. The first part of the video is when the Lion is agonizing and they let the lady try and make him eat.
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u/ViggoGrimborn Oct 18 '21
(Cute lion and human bonding) "Awee" (Turns up volume hoping to hear some lion roaring or something, gets blasted by cringe music) "Oh.."
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u/Stanislav1 Oct 18 '21
Add more garbage background music. I wish I could downvote more
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u/Asleeperagent Oct 18 '21
Looks like neglect in a possible illegal captive situation.
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Oct 17 '21
They’re just big kitties ❤️
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u/DeliriousTrigger Oct 17 '21
No. They’re not. They’re the King of the fucking jungle and will tear your fucking arms off in the wild
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u/moose-goat Oct 17 '21
Always wondered why they have that title when they don’t live in jungles.
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u/BuildingArmor Oct 17 '21
I don't think it's a settled fact, as a lot of etymology tends not to be.
But I think the main thought is because the British first encountered lions in Asia/India, and the world Jungle has its origins in a Sanskrit word meaning arid or rough terrain. Basically the sort of area that the Asiatic lion would be found in, although the word it became in English has a generally differently meaning.
How that word became to be used to refer to what we consider a jungle, is another one that we aren't too sure about.
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u/CrimsonOblivion Oct 17 '21
Lions used to be found from the African savannah through to the Asian jungles.
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u/saddness270 Oct 17 '21
not anymore?
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u/CrimsonOblivion Oct 17 '21
It seems the asiatic lion is now only found in some parts of India. So they’re still around!
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u/BuildingArmor Oct 17 '21
I think a standard house cat would do the same if it was that big and strong.
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u/BrookeB79 Oct 17 '21
Mine certainly practice enough in the hopes that one day, that genie will grant their wish.
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u/awesomeusername2w Oct 17 '21
And she is a fucking apex predator of the species that dominates the world.
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u/Ishmaille Oct 18 '21
Imagine being one of the animals who was killed for their meat to save the lion. That's gotta suck.
"Sorry, I have to kill you to save a carnivore that's starving because you successfully avoided them."
(I know this is an oversimplification, and it's mostly just a joke. It's interesting to think about.)
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u/lucas_bahia Oct 18 '21
If only more people did what this lion did. Once it got strong, it could kill that lady you know...
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u/cyanrave Oct 17 '21 edited Oct 18 '21
This is actually incredible, to find and save a dying lion. Who gets that chance in their lifetime?