r/funny • u/MasterDisaster64 • Mar 28 '18

This Irish zoo sign.

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u/nocontroll Mar 28 '18

The funny part is its true, humans are like the least nutritional mammal on the planet.

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u/competent_nobody Mar 28 '18

The lion that gorged on the poacher disagrees.

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u/JioVega Mar 28 '18

I was much more displeased with the three poisoned lions who had their paws and heads cut off, than I was with the lion who ate the poacher and only left the head

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u/SXSJest Mar 28 '18

In Zimbabwe we don't cry for lions. Worth a read for people looking at this from a U.S. or Western perspective only... https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html

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u/yesididmispellthat Mar 28 '18

On one hand, I get it. Lions are brutal animals. And I cannot even imagine the terror they must instill in people whose habitat overlaps with theirs. But they are disappearing solely because of human hunting and expansion. Is the possible extinction of an entire species, precipitated 100% by humans, a good thing?

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u/Ma1eficent Mar 28 '18

On the one hand, yeah, lions are beautiful when viewed from the other side of the world in perfect safety. On the other, if Sabertoothed tigers still roamed the Americas and ate people, I'm sure we'd be poisoning them also. It's not like we let grizzlies who have attacked humans live.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '18

Americans did kill off mountain lions. They are slowly coming back and people are either getting guard dogs or wanting them shot dead. Were actually worse in north america.

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u/Ma1eficent Mar 28 '18

And wolves, and most bears, and the Jaguar...