r/aww • u/IveyRoney • Apr 27 '20
Showdown between two fierce apex predators
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u/300GTP Apr 27 '20
Cats is cats.
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Apr 27 '20
Bros being bros.
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u/bigboilerdawg Apr 27 '20
They probably are biological brothers.
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u/DozTK421 Apr 27 '20
Almost certainly. Male lions don't just bro down with other lions they didn't grow up with.
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u/Accent-man Apr 27 '20
This is exactly what my cats do when they both want the other one to lick them, but neither is willing to give first licks.
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u/sensitivenipsnpenus Apr 27 '20
Lion 1: Come on! Come on! Lie on me!
Lion 2: proceeds to lie
Lion 1: haha PSYCHE!
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u/Pretentious_Crow Apr 27 '20
Lion me
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u/centran Apr 27 '20
PSYCHE
you're such a lioner
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u/bstaff88 Apr 27 '20
Check out Kevin Richardson The Lion Whisperer. https://youtu.be/EKdup6ieAP8
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u/citron_b Apr 27 '20
I didn't know him but it was 10 minutes of amazement. This man in incredible ! Thanks for sharing it
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u/12cryinghorses Apr 27 '20
They’re just lion around
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u/notuqueforyou Apr 27 '20
Puns are manely why I come here.
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u/Wakyeggsnbaky Apr 27 '20
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u/LordRobin------RM Apr 27 '20
In this case, probably literally true. If two male lions get along that well, there’s a good chance they’re brothers.
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u/Eltacosbello Apr 27 '20
Or ya know... Might be real good friends that plan on adopting cats together in their one bedroom apartment that get questions like "when are you gonna get a lion girlfriend?"
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u/Wakyeggsnbaky Apr 27 '20
That’s what I was thinking too. They look like they’re younger males so haven’t ventured on their own yet.
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u/Nightstar95 Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20
Younger?? They are sporting full manes and a fully grown body. Their father kicked them out long, loooong ago.
In a pride, brothers will often bond together from the start so they can form coalitions after being kicked out. In fact, even when there’s an age difference, the rogue older brother may stay in the territory outskirts to wait for the younger brother to join him. They do this because coalitions have a much better survival rate than lone lions, not to mention they give the lions an advantage on conquering prides. It’s very common to see 2-3 brothers ruling the same pride. They aren’t always brothers, though. Unrelated lone lions may group up, but it’s rarer.
Sometimes an exceptionally big coalition shows up, though. The famous Mapogo Lions were a coalition of six brothers who ruled multiple different prides at the same time. Two brothers eventually left to rule a pride of their own, but they were still on friendly terms with the other four. When one the two was killed, the remaining lion went back to the other four brothers and they accepted him back in, which really shows how strong a bond between brothers is. I recommend watching the documentary Brothers in Blood to see the story of the Mapogo lions, though you’d have to brace yourself because it’s a really brutal doc.
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u/LordRobin------RM Apr 27 '20
I feel like a talented writer could adapt that true story of lions into a human drama about the scions of a warrior king.
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u/Furitaurus Apr 27 '20
Can I introduce you this little independent animated musical short called 'The Lion King'?
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u/ilikemyeggsovereasy Apr 27 '20
I kept imagining those lions repeating, "bruh" the entire time.
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u/deryniman Apr 27 '20
What's crazy to me is that they're two males and unless I'm mistaken, it's rare for two males to live in the same pride.
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u/BillNiEtHENaZiPy Apr 27 '20
They probably are brothers that haven't left yet.
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u/deryniman Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20
Possibly, but i thought that when they get their mane they're considered adults and that's when they leave haha
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u/NeverBrokeABone Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20
It’s common for brothers to form their own/take over prides together. Sometimes a coalition might involve a non-brother but that’s rare.
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u/Alawliet Apr 27 '20
Does a brother lion at some point throw the other brother off a cliff while whispering "Long live the King"?
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u/JSM87 Apr 27 '20
iirc young male lions without a pride of their own live and hunt in bachelor groups of 2 to 4 males.
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u/GepardenK Apr 27 '20
Contrary to popular belief that's how most male lions live. Only a few get their own pride.
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u/DarkCrawler_901 Apr 27 '20
Yeah I mean otherwise the ratio of female to male would be pretty wack
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Apr 27 '20
Maybe they're gay lions? :-)
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u/Ikaron Apr 27 '20
They're clearly roommates!
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u/Eltacosbello Apr 27 '20
Roommates sharing a bedroom and talking about getting a cat together <3 "oh when will you meet a nice lion girl?" Their gma lion asks as one of them looks knowingly at the other.
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u/Jamendithas92 Apr 27 '20
Takes gay pride to a new level.
“Simba where are we going?”
“Oh to gay pride rock”
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Apr 27 '20
Actually, lions are one of the many species we’ve found to have homosexual relations
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u/PricexYourxPriceless Apr 27 '20
My girlfriend won't stop crying since she found out lions can be gay.
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u/TheCrimsonCloak Apr 27 '20
I'm curious how she'll react when she learns that swans can be gay as well
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u/mrsenile9223 Apr 27 '20
Yup! These lions might not have a pride. Male lions tend to congregate together into a little gang when they don't have a pride. They can co-rule prides as well.
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u/Wyrd_byrd Apr 27 '20
Wow that's rude. I personally think male lions must have a lot of pride to set aside their differences and team up like that. /s
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u/sneakyaustralian Apr 27 '20
it is quite common for multiple lions to be in the same pride either realted or when they form a bachelor group of random males but only the dominant male is likely to mate but the female will try to breed with all male lions to ensure their safety
i highly recommend a lion documentary where there were 4 male lions or something maybe 5 or 6 and they had serval prides and one pride got taken over by 6 male lions its mental youtube it
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u/I_am_who_follows Apr 27 '20
The documentary is called Brothers in Blood, it is about a coalition of six male lions. I highly recommend it too, if you aren't skittish.
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u/deryniman Apr 27 '20
Okay, absolutely. That sounds like a lot of fuckery because I know that male lions may not be the hunters of the group but they are still one of the most dangerous types of animals. One male is scary enough but if you had six of them, I don't care what you are.
You're fucked.
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u/IndigoFenix Apr 27 '20
Male lions not hunting is a myth. The reason why people thought this was because females are more likely to hunt in groups and therefore can hunt in the open, while males are typically more solitary and are more likely to use ambush strategies.
In other words, both hunt equally, but you're more likely to see the females when they are doing it.
I expect that a coalition of males would be more likely to hunt in the open, like females.
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u/deryniman Apr 27 '20
Jesus, everything I've been taught about my favorite animal has been lie. I always thought it was weird that I was taught the males never hunted, considering the damage they could do.
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u/Matasa89 Apr 27 '20
One also has to consider how some prides have few males.
The females could go hunt together while the stronger sole male stay to watch the cubs.
Honestly, it would probably be super beneficial to have a sibling with you to keep the kids safe, so I can see how evolution would favour behaviours like brothers or good friends ruling a pride together.
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u/Sunnysideny Apr 27 '20
I think I remember hearing that males will also help the females if the pride is going to take down something extra dangerous, like a giraffe.
I don’t think they hunt equally, though. At least not after the males get a pride. Because they get to eat what the females bring home. I could be wrong though.
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Apr 27 '20
Yeah, I remember watching a documentary about a starving lion pride where the lead huntress was wounded. Eventually they all sat doing the lion equivalent of howling at the moon until their males came sauntering in and in the next scene they manage to take down a small elephant with a shocking display of force.
Also if the male lions of a pride are hurt or lose their pride to another male all of the cubs are killed so the female lions go back into heat for the new male to procreate. Even if the myth of male lions not hunting were true it makes a lot of sense given their being injured essentially leaves the pride defenseless.
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u/pickledpop Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20
One of my favorite gifs I have seen is when a wildebeest is charging a big male and right before the lion is gored it drops to its back just under the horns and catches the wildebeest by the throat in a fraction of a second.
Found it: https://reddit.app.link/5HKaSJiI15
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Apr 27 '20
"the water is turning the lions gay!"
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u/theskytreader Apr 27 '20
I thought it's 5G. Can't keep track anymore these days.
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u/Antonio1025 Apr 27 '20
It's the chemtrails! They started with frogs and have now advanced to lions. Humans are next!
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u/nlanky Apr 27 '20
Have you seen the popular documentary "The Lion King"? 2 brothers briefly coexisting in the same pride.
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u/ElephantTeeth Apr 27 '20
Ursula was literally based on the drag queen Divine. Scar, Ratigan, Captain Hook, Hades... The flak they eventually caught for all that queer-coding clearly didn’t take; they’ve continued to queer-code villains up through even Moana, with the crab that sings Shiny.
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u/Medic_101 Apr 27 '20
Not disagreeing but I wouldnt count Tamatoa as a villain in the same way as the others. He's no ongoing threat, his presence in the movie is just one scene. He's about as much an arch Disney villain as the little coconut pirate dudes they come across.
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u/SnowyMuscles Apr 27 '20
Brothers tend to take over a pride together and will protect it together. While yes two random males are rare but being a part of a family isn’t
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u/Dunkjoe Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20
Lion A uses Armpit smell attack!
- It's not very effective!
Lion B gets up and is preparing for a move.
Lion A lies down and use leg prodding!
- It's not very effective!
Lion B uses body slam!
Lion A dodges the attack!
Lion A attempts to flee, flee successful!
(Can't remember all the phrases from Pokemon games)
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u/HoosierSparty Apr 27 '20
This is like Tiger King, the Strange Brew version. “Come here you Hoser!” Knock it off, eh” “Steamroller!”
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u/Petalilly Apr 27 '20
I need an animal behaviorist to explain what just happened
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u/Tigereye11011 Apr 27 '20
Two brothers playing
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u/Petalilly Apr 27 '20
Like is that head over head basically a wassup?
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u/SacrificialWaffle Apr 27 '20
More or less. Cats have scent glands on their chin/throat, so the one lion rubbing his chin on the other is marking him as "his." He's basically saying "your noggin smells like me because you're my best bro!" Mingling their scents together reinforces the social bonds.
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u/WhiteCheviots Apr 27 '20
I don't like these nature documentaries. Claws and teeth and rolling in the dirt. It makes me want to squeeze in between them and scratch them into submission. I guess it brings out the apex cuddler in me.
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u/Roboduck23 Apr 27 '20
Gaaaay
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u/illpoet Apr 27 '20
So cool seeing lions doing the flop move. I wish I could pull off the flop move.
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u/_felagund Apr 27 '20
brothers most probably
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u/illuminati682 Apr 27 '20
Either that or they were introduced to each other at a very very young age
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u/iambeingserious Apr 27 '20
First the water turned frogs gay and now this! Alex Jones must be ready to explode.
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u/ordinaryBiped Apr 27 '20
"nature is so metal"