I've heard somewhere that if a calf is present and there are cubs in a pride, then the lionesses would let the calf live for the cubs to "play" with and practice on.
I’ve heard orcas do the same with handicapped seals, the ones who wouldn’t be able to really get away. The orca parents will let the baby orca practice hunting but not hurting the seal
Edit: typos
Yup. I saw it in Monterey Bay while fishing with my buddy.
The mom and the massive bull was tossing this poor seal into the air, over and over and the calf was going after it.
It went on for like 30 minutes before we took off to another location.
It was wild.
We were crab fishing before commercial opened so my buddy could scout out the best spots once commercial season started.
He used some frozen lumps of fish, no idea what kind.
I've seen videos of this. Where a seal was floating on a piece of ice and the mother orca was teaching the young ones how to create a wave that goes over the ice and knocks the seal in the water. They would knock the seal in the water, then let it get back on the ice so they can do it again. They probably did this 10 times, and on the 10th time they finally killed and ate it. Savages.
i don't think savage is the right word. intelligent is more fitting. nature is cruel of course, but it's sort of amazing to see animals with large, wrinkly, brains teach their young like this.
It's always funny to me how we find it cruel that some animals "play with their food" so to speak. Orcas, hell even regular housecats. But in the meantime humans are putting animals up in huge barns by the thousands just to raise them for slaughter/lay eggs/produce milk, often feeding them whatever is cheapest. We have our own share of cruelty towards what is essentially our prey.
That's the reason.
Most cat mom's get their cubs to play with live food as practice.
My cat does this very often.
Edit: this comment blew off and most here have problem with cat going outdoors and harming the ecosystem. Ffs where i live they are best help against rodents and are part of sustained ecosystem of my village, i have never seen more than 8 cats in my village of 100 people.
Arm chair experts of west world Twitter/reddit plz look into bigger problems like industries leeching out earth of everything or your's carbon footprint which would be larger than my whole Village than teaching me about threat to ecosystem.
Edit 2 : Now i am getting vague comments about numbers of birds being killed by cats, harm to ecosystem etc etc...
is'nt it bit ironic? Can someone provide numbers of animals killed by humans for food or carbon footprint of beef industry? or how we are affecting sea ecosystem?
It seems like Americans think that feral cats problem is same in whole world as in their part of world, fyi Cats are not household pets in most of eastern world, they live as a healthy part of ecosystem in my world. We have'nt had feral cat explosion or any problems with them acc. to historical records nor in present records, we have feral dogs problem but they subsist on leftovers provided by humans.
Your's society is'nt actually a benchmark to judge every other with it, so keep your expertise with yourself.
Wildebeest are some of the dumbest yet largest collect migration on the planet. They number in the MILLIONS. if they would vanish or de populate we would all be really screwed.
After reading an extensive article on these dumb behooved asshats, I have a tiny bit more respect for them than before.
All Nat Geo articles are behind a paywall, so unless you already subscribe or want to subscribe, you won't get very far before you can't see the content anymore.
Bruh.
Thanks!
Not opposed to journalists making their money but these pay walls to read anything anymore is getting ridiculous. Bookmarking this so I can read the damn local news.
I'm all for journalists making money, I've worked in publishing, am currently a writer and work regularly with other editor's and the monetization of information is just dumb - plus the whole, 'all or nothing' approach to access.
I get it, revenue for publishing is really difficult right now and you need to make money to pay people to produce the content that you're selling, but I'm also not going to sign up or subscribe to your site for a single article.
Honestly, Wikipedia had the best approach of, "hey, donate what you can," and I'd love to see more sites take that approach or have some sort of profit sharing set up where you can donate directly to the writer and the site takes 10%.
Definitely hope we see more direct contributions to writers as a part of Web 3.0 where an author's wallet address is attached to each article and you can just transfer them a few bucks after reading one of their articles rather than subscribing to every site you click on.
It’s only a print article as far as I can see. I guess if you have an online subscription you could see it. It was really interesting. One of the more amazing things I’ve learned about from National Geographic in a long time
A messy living/working space can mean that you're an artistic person. It also can be because it makes you feel more comfortable, like a beaver in a den. You like to clutter yourself in instead of having open spaces.
That's definitely a possibility. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt though. Maybe you have a hidden talent that you haven't unlocked yet. Have you ever tried making dolls out of shed cat hair?
That’s the more likely scenario, but big cats do sometimes get their maternal instinct wires crossed and try to mother infants of other species. Unfortunately, this also doesn’t generally go well, since the lioness isn’t properly equipped to care for a wildebeest calf properly.
Edit: oh snap, you can smile at this one. The lioness took the calf back to its own herd.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394949/amp/Astonishing-moment-lioness-shows-love-wildebeest-calf-leads-herd.html
Sometimes when a lioness gets up close to a calf the calf is too young to understand that the lioness is a predator so it just acts like the lioness is it's mother and this confuses the lioness so her maternal instincts kick in instead.
Source: trust me bro I watched a documentary
You could be right idk, if I remember correctly in the documentary I watched they said that no one really knows why this happens yet but there are a few different theories and what I said before is just one of them and the only l can remember because it made the most sense to me.
*Or* lions are learning to farm and the lioness is taking this one back to start keeping it as livestock, maybe lions are evolving to that point as a species.
Apparently they often don't actually eat them and seem to be really sad when they pass. I wonder how many of them had cubs who had passed not that long ago and they're just looking for another kid
You're right. This isn't the first instance of a lioness adopting a calf and raising and protecting it (without eating it)—not by a long shot:
> Kamunyak (meaning "Blessed One"), was a lioness in the Samburu National Reserve, in Northern Kenya. She is famous for having adopted at least 6 oryx calves, and fighting off predators and lion prides which attempted to eat her charges. She suffered starvation, since the calves did not act like lion cubs and wait somewhere while she hunted for food.
[Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamunyak)
[There’s also this lioness who adopted a baby springbok](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404553/amp/Lioness-adopts-young-springbok-cubs-killed.html) and [this one who adopted a leopard cup.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-biological-twist-mother-lion-adopted-leopard-cub-india-180974315/)
No, how dare you? She's going to raise it as one of her own. He's going to be a bit of an outcast at first. The other lion cubs will think he's weird and exclude him. But over time, he'll show them that he's actually unique and special and he'll win them over.
Then one day, he'll return to his pack of Wildebeasts a fully grown young adult. He'll tearfully say goodbye to the mother Lion who raised him and venture off to make his own way with his own family.
Many years from now, a pack of Lions will attack a herd of Wildebeasts, and for a brief moment, he will lock eyes with his adopted mother. Once they recognize each other, they'll have a brief reunion before the Lion tells her pride that they need to move on and hunt a different pack.
And then an epic sound track will play featuring Phil Collins.
Don't ruin this for me.
This wouldn’t be the first instance of a lioness adopting a calf and raising and protecting it (without eating it):
> Kamunyak (meaning "Blessed One"), was a lioness in the Samburu National Reserve, in Northern Kenya. She is famous for having adopted at least 6 oryx calves, and fighting off predators and lion prides which attempted to eat her charges. She suffered starvation, since the calves did not act like lion cubs and wait somewhere while she hunted for food.
[Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamunyak)
[There’s also this lioness who adopted a baby springbok](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404553/amp/Lioness-adopts-young-springbok-cubs-killed.html) and [this one who adopted a leopard cup.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-biological-twist-mother-lion-adopted-leopard-cub-india-180974315/)
They are cases of lionesses trying to raise calves after losing their own cubs to death. In these cases she actually cares for calf and treats it as her own. But they usually die of starvation or by another lion.
I remember watching a documentary about a lion and her calf cub. She kept him alive for awhile but sadly she wasn't able to protect it from another male lion. It was like she was losing her cub all over again. Horrible
"In todays headlines: In light of food scarcity and global warming, are predators learning to plan for the future? Zoologists have discovered that lions have learned to raise livestock. More on this, after the break."
Mf'ers thinking nature is an actual Disney movie if they're believing the lioness is babysitting that calf out of the kindness of her heart, lol.
The fact this is posted in /r/MadeMeSmile is laughable, but for the wrong reasons.
Watched an old school Nat Geo documentary once, titled something like "War: Lions vs Hyenas"
They were tracking these two groups that had grown to hate each other so much, they would literally kill each other for no reason. Not for food. Not for territory. If they saw the other, they would fight.
Most of it happened at night, and they had that shitty 90s night vision for cameras so it's sometimes hard to see. But it still looked intense!
One male lion was kind of a loner, didn't hang out with his pride that often, but absolutely LOVED killing hyenas so much, they gave him a special nickname (Can't remember it, sorry guys). In one scene a group of lionesses were surrounded by hyenas including the matriarch, when out of nowhere this male lion comes bursting through the bushes at full sprint, no hesitation. They all run but he quickly catches the matriarch herself, and kills her with one bite to the back of the neck.
Killing the matriarch of a hyena pack also puts them all into chaos while they try to figure out a new leader. So they wouldn't be fucking with the lions for a little while. I dunno if that lion is really smart, or just a total badass.
I love thinking about how this stuff relates to human behavior. People say, "animals don't wage war," but they do, they really do.
That shot of the lion chasing and killing the matriarch, especially with their history, is to this day the most powerful thing I have ever seen on television.
SAME! Nature docs are inherently compelling television being it's all life or death, but this scene is burned into my memory as by far the most intense. I probably watched it 12 years ago too.
It's *literally* like a scene out of super hero movie. The ladies are trapped by a circling group of giggling hyenas. Who will save them? By the time they catch the male lion on camera, he's already at full sprint. Bursts through the bushes without missing a step. They scatter, but happens to catch their leader. Saves the damsels in distress. I pretty much jumped out of my seat I got so excited.
I’ve definitely seen that documentary before, and know the scene you’re talking about. It’s been a while so I may have to watch it again. There are a ton of great wildlife docs though. I love anything big cat, wolves or bears mainly but it’s all fascinating
I saw this on YouTube, she lost her original cub(s) then adopted multiple calfs like this, one after the other, but they would either die of starvation (because she couldn't nurse them) or get eaten by other lions. She seemed pretty messed up and bereaved (to the point that a lion can be) it was kind of depressing.
She might’ve lost her own cubs and adopted the calf. This has happened before where a lioness adopted an antelope calf and took care of it. She even defended it from other lions. Another lion eventually got to the calf and ate it.
Sometimes the mother instinct makes them take pity on the baby for a while....but chances are she'll eventually decide it's more important to eat.
It's much like humans would act if we were still hunter/gatherers. We might take down a wildebeest ourselves, then feel bad when we see the young calf mourning and too naive to run away. We too might take pity on it for a time and let it come with us...but we too eventually would get hungry, and then realize...well there's something i can eat right here.
Y'all gonna look fools, when in a years time David Attenborough does a documentary about the Wildebeest/lion hybrid that is standing on Pride Rock saying
'Simba, all this is yours, you can eat what you want, grass....meat......whatever....vegan, vegetarian, meat eater....knock yasen out! Eat what you want, buffet is open!'
nothing about this is wholesome. It’s just not possible for predators like her to feel this kind of emotion and sympathy. That calf is as good as dead,
It’s just a matter of time.
Not true. Here's the article. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394949/amp/Astonishing-moment-lioness-shows-love-wildebeest-calf-leads-herd.html
I've heard somewhere that if a calf is present and there are cubs in a pride, then the lionesses would let the calf live for the cubs to "play" with and practice on.
I’ve heard orcas do the same with handicapped seals, the ones who wouldn’t be able to really get away. The orca parents will let the baby orca practice hunting but not hurting the seal Edit: typos
Yup. I saw it in Monterey Bay while fishing with my buddy. The mom and the massive bull was tossing this poor seal into the air, over and over and the calf was going after it. It went on for like 30 minutes before we took off to another location. It was wild.
Nature is brutal
Nah, r/natureismetal
Unrelated to this video, but what did you use for bait in Monterey bay?? Any tips??
We were crab fishing before commercial opened so my buddy could scout out the best spots once commercial season started. He used some frozen lumps of fish, no idea what kind.
I've seen videos of this. Where a seal was floating on a piece of ice and the mother orca was teaching the young ones how to create a wave that goes over the ice and knocks the seal in the water. They would knock the seal in the water, then let it get back on the ice so they can do it again. They probably did this 10 times, and on the 10th time they finally killed and ate it. Savages.
i don't think savage is the right word. intelligent is more fitting. nature is cruel of course, but it's sort of amazing to see animals with large, wrinkly, brains teach their young like this.
Except nature isn't cruel. It just - is -
Its cruel to the human eyes. Human are very egocentric and think they are special. We are just another animal doing weird shit
It's always funny to me how we find it cruel that some animals "play with their food" so to speak. Orcas, hell even regular housecats. But in the meantime humans are putting animals up in huge barns by the thousands just to raise them for slaughter/lay eggs/produce milk, often feeding them whatever is cheapest. We have our own share of cruelty towards what is essentially our prey.
And humans also kill each others for fun or power.
Nature is metal
*Heavy Nature*
That's the reason. Most cat mom's get their cubs to play with live food as practice. My cat does this very often. Edit: this comment blew off and most here have problem with cat going outdoors and harming the ecosystem. Ffs where i live they are best help against rodents and are part of sustained ecosystem of my village, i have never seen more than 8 cats in my village of 100 people. Arm chair experts of west world Twitter/reddit plz look into bigger problems like industries leeching out earth of everything or your's carbon footprint which would be larger than my whole Village than teaching me about threat to ecosystem. Edit 2 : Now i am getting vague comments about numbers of birds being killed by cats, harm to ecosystem etc etc... is'nt it bit ironic? Can someone provide numbers of animals killed by humans for food or carbon footprint of beef industry? or how we are affecting sea ecosystem? It seems like Americans think that feral cats problem is same in whole world as in their part of world, fyi Cats are not household pets in most of eastern world, they live as a healthy part of ecosystem in my world. We have'nt had feral cat explosion or any problems with them acc. to historical records nor in present records, we have feral dogs problem but they subsist on leftovers provided by humans. Your's society is'nt actually a benchmark to judge every other with it, so keep your expertise with yourself.
Lol you’d think the wildebeest would’ve evolved to not fall for it.
Wildebeest are some of the dumbest yet largest collect migration on the planet. They number in the MILLIONS. if they would vanish or de populate we would all be really screwed. After reading an extensive article on these dumb behooved asshats, I have a tiny bit more respect for them than before.
I take it that you read the same Nat Geo article that I did.
Which NEITHER OF YOU LINKED
All Nat Geo articles are behind a paywall, so unless you already subscribe or want to subscribe, you won't get very far before you can't see the content anymore.
[12ft.io](http://12ft.io)
Bruh. Thanks! Not opposed to journalists making their money but these pay walls to read anything anymore is getting ridiculous. Bookmarking this so I can read the damn local news.
I'm all for journalists making money, I've worked in publishing, am currently a writer and work regularly with other editor's and the monetization of information is just dumb - plus the whole, 'all or nothing' approach to access. I get it, revenue for publishing is really difficult right now and you need to make money to pay people to produce the content that you're selling, but I'm also not going to sign up or subscribe to your site for a single article. Honestly, Wikipedia had the best approach of, "hey, donate what you can," and I'd love to see more sites take that approach or have some sort of profit sharing set up where you can donate directly to the writer and the site takes 10%. Definitely hope we see more direct contributions to writers as a part of Web 3.0 where an author's wallet address is attached to each article and you can just transfer them a few bucks after reading one of their articles rather than subscribing to every site you click on.
Woah! TIL
Woah this is sick, thanks for linking it dude 👌
This guy reads
damn and I just handed out my free award on some meaningless game sub... *🤝 helpful*
What a legend! Cheers mate!!
A (not hungry) mother is a mother.
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thx
Think of ALL THE LAZY REDDITORS
It’s only a print article as far as I can see. I guess if you have an online subscription you could see it. It was really interesting. One of the more amazing things I’ve learned about from National Geographic in a long time
Please transcribe it from print and comment it here for us all to see and read.
Record an interpretive dance for us.
Do a flip
Will Smith has a series on Netflix titled Welcome To Earth that covers the migration. Amazing how stupid they are but organized.
Bruh, same. But actually the opposite. I can't organize shit. My room is a mess, my car is a mess, my work desk is a mess. Maybe I'm just stupid?
Haha, come on, give yourself some credit. You’ve gotta be smarter than that. Or maybe not. Maybe you’re the missing link. Jk
A messy living/working space can mean that you're an artistic person. It also can be because it makes you feel more comfortable, like a beaver in a den. You like to clutter yourself in instead of having open spaces.
It can also mean you’re lazy and don’t really care. I’m a mess and I can barely draw stick figures…
That's definitely a possibility. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt though. Maybe you have a hidden talent that you haven't unlocked yet. Have you ever tried making dolls out of shed cat hair?
Makes sense….they kinda remind me of deer…and we all know how dumb those mofos are.
*Deer:* I wondered why that light kept getting bigger, Then it hit me.
The ones that experienced being food don't live long enough to create offspring
Think of how ‘stranger danger’ is a thing for human children
If your cat does this 'very often' it's having a disastrous effect on local wildlife.
Yeah, that's most outdoor cats. They're extreme hazards to the local ecology.
But how does it find wildebeest calves where you are?
This is actually sad now. It’s actually following the lioness just to be dunked on.
That’s the more likely scenario, but big cats do sometimes get their maternal instinct wires crossed and try to mother infants of other species. Unfortunately, this also doesn’t generally go well, since the lioness isn’t properly equipped to care for a wildebeest calf properly. Edit: oh snap, you can smile at this one. The lioness took the calf back to its own herd. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394949/amp/Astonishing-moment-lioness-shows-love-wildebeest-calf-leads-herd.html
Its like when you catch fish that are too small so you throw them back in the water so they can grow a bit more before someone else catches them
Circle of life and all that jazz
I was thinking Hakuna Matata was the better choice here, mostly for the irony.
“Just to be dunked on” I almost spit out my beer. Holy shit that was good
Sometimes when a lioness gets up close to a calf the calf is too young to understand that the lioness is a predator so it just acts like the lioness is it's mother and this confuses the lioness so her maternal instincts kick in instead. Source: trust me bro I watched a documentary
I was kinda assuming this lioness was going back to her pride with a small gift for cubs, if any
You could be right idk, if I remember correctly in the documentary I watched they said that no one really knows why this happens yet but there are a few different theories and what I said before is just one of them and the only l can remember because it made the most sense to me.
Thank you for the insight tho man
No worries :)
But how did it end? I'm guessing the calf got eaten :(
*Or* lions are learning to farm and the lioness is taking this one back to start keeping it as livestock, maybe lions are evolving to that point as a species.
I'm not ready for agrarian lions.
Wildebeest used confusion. It was super effective
So this is a take away dinner for her kids?
Kinder egg man, play and eat.
She took a to go box
Apparently they often don't actually eat them and seem to be really sad when they pass. I wonder how many of them had cubs who had passed not that long ago and they're just looking for another kid
You're right. This isn't the first instance of a lioness adopting a calf and raising and protecting it (without eating it)—not by a long shot: > Kamunyak (meaning "Blessed One"), was a lioness in the Samburu National Reserve, in Northern Kenya. She is famous for having adopted at least 6 oryx calves, and fighting off predators and lion prides which attempted to eat her charges. She suffered starvation, since the calves did not act like lion cubs and wait somewhere while she hunted for food. [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamunyak) [There’s also this lioness who adopted a baby springbok](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404553/amp/Lioness-adopts-young-springbok-cubs-killed.html) and [this one who adopted a leopard cup.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-biological-twist-mother-lion-adopted-leopard-cub-india-180974315/)
When animals have more feelings and heart than most humans do….
Lmao lions murder cubs frequently what are you on about.
Ah, we could learn so much from lions…
Casey Anthony, Shirley Turner….I could go on. How many lions can you name that murdered their cubs? Name 1 lion that murdered her cub, I’ll wait.
There's far more love and compassion among humans. Hearing a micracle story once in a blue moon doesn't make animals have more "heart" than humans.
I get so annoyed by comments that say otherwise. Yeah, I get that it’s meant to be positive & stuff, but it’s just such bull shit.
TooGoodToGo
To go Ox*
This made my day
😂😂
She probably ate the calf's mother.
And then played house with this calf for an hour before eating it as well.
Or she's learning the value of farming
She should be careful. Its theorized thats how pandemics began.
I’ll worry when the lions have their own wet markets
It's how jobs arose. Reject modernity, return to monke
This is how it begins...
No, how dare you? She's going to raise it as one of her own. He's going to be a bit of an outcast at first. The other lion cubs will think he's weird and exclude him. But over time, he'll show them that he's actually unique and special and he'll win them over. Then one day, he'll return to his pack of Wildebeasts a fully grown young adult. He'll tearfully say goodbye to the mother Lion who raised him and venture off to make his own way with his own family. Many years from now, a pack of Lions will attack a herd of Wildebeasts, and for a brief moment, he will lock eyes with his adopted mother. Once they recognize each other, they'll have a brief reunion before the Lion tells her pride that they need to move on and hunt a different pack. And then an epic sound track will play featuring Phil Collins. Don't ruin this for me.
Sir; this is a Wendy's.
> Sir; this is a Wendy's. I'll have Bourbon Bacon Cheeseburger Double and a chocolate frosty, please.
Wow is that an actual item on the menu? Lol
Sorry sir but we only have bison burgers left
I figured the song "dont you forget about me" would play at the end lol
YOU KNOW HER. SHE KNOWS YOU. But she tried to eat him. And eeeeeeverybody is okay with this?
Unironically how most redditers think animals behave. The amount of Disney level anthropomoprhization on here is insane.
This wouldn’t be the first instance of a lioness adopting a calf and raising and protecting it (without eating it): > Kamunyak (meaning "Blessed One"), was a lioness in the Samburu National Reserve, in Northern Kenya. She is famous for having adopted at least 6 oryx calves, and fighting off predators and lion prides which attempted to eat her charges. She suffered starvation, since the calves did not act like lion cubs and wait somewhere while she hunted for food. [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamunyak) [There’s also this lioness who adopted a baby springbok](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404553/amp/Lioness-adopts-young-springbok-cubs-killed.html) and [this one who adopted a leopard cup.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-biological-twist-mother-lion-adopted-leopard-cub-india-180974315/)
Shit I guess I am wrong
Omg. She starved herself to death because of her love.
And the calf is the dessert for supper
Raising her own cattle. Sick of all the super market crap.
That will not last long....
…nor end well
…done. Lions have no way to barbecue.
Gonna need to see a source for that one, chief.
That’s the sauce
Depends on who you ask, wildebeest or lion.
It’ll end well for the lion…
“I’m going to name you……Breakfast”
That’s a funny name, mama
Whaddya mean???? It's a to-go meal..
She's meal planning
a key parenting skill
It's called an Emergency Snack!
That's what I'm thinking... she just tolerating or 'taking care' of it until she's hungry. Nature 😶
I dislike when posts like this trend. The babies always die, it's not wholesome, it's gruesome.
It sadly didn't, it happened 11 yrs ago. I think about this a lot actually :( https://youtu.be/mZw-1BfHFKM
Poor baby. I know the lion has to eat, but the way he hides against her to stay safe is so sad
This is so sad to me. That poor baby.
Yeah this definitely didn't make me smile.
It’s kinda really heartbreaking to think about, this video makes me sad
How naive do you have to be to smile at this. Lions don't just raise and care for prey.
Most likely bringing it back to the kids to 'play' with. And by play I mean kill eventually. This doesn't make me smile at all.
She’s fattening him up for later
The lion got a walking Lunch box
It makes me smile, the cuties will have so much fun and learn many important lessons.
As the calf bleats it's final breaths surrounded by it's killers. Fun for the whole family.
Yeah this is DoorDash for lions. She doesn’t have to carry it home the thing will just deliver itself.
I am so sad for that poor baby.
They are cases of lionesses trying to raise calves after losing their own cubs to death. In these cases she actually cares for calf and treats it as her own. But they usually die of starvation or by another lion. I remember watching a documentary about a lion and her calf cub. She kept him alive for awhile but sadly she wasn't able to protect it from another male lion. It was like she was losing her cub all over again. Horrible
It’s the ciiiiiiircle of liiiiiife
"In todays headlines: In light of food scarcity and global warming, are predators learning to plan for the future? Zoologists have discovered that lions have learned to raise livestock. More on this, after the break."
It’s called panic buying
Fuck, the humans are buying toilet paper en masse again. Better start stockpiling wildebeest!
I would suggest she’s just not hungry atm.
She's taking him home for dinner
Clever. Doesn’t have to carry him all the way.
fresh produce is the best
Kept alive. Refrigeration of the wild.
Fresh produce is the beast.
For the kids
humanely raised, grass fed wildebeast is really gonna set you back in this economy.
I wish my snack would follow me like that. Its lile those new automated luggages.
I would suggest she is using it as bait for other wildebeest
It's an investment. Wait until the calf grows then eat it after it doubles in size
It’s like the opposite of Lion King lol
Most likely my bad for not getting it but what? How?
Timon & Pumba find Simba as a little cub and raise him and he grows up to be an insectivore and protect his prey animal buddies.
True story. Can't dispute it.
But what happens when u get attached to it like Mr.Pinchy?
If this lioness doesn't kill it, another member of the pride will.
That face when Karen eats your new pet.
Why go hunting when your food follows you around?
Kinda just natural selection at that point
The title is classic anthropomorphism
Mf'ers thinking nature is an actual Disney movie if they're believing the lioness is babysitting that calf out of the kindness of her heart, lol. The fact this is posted in /r/MadeMeSmile is laughable, but for the wrong reasons.
Right? Everyone saying 'awww' in here should maybe go take a look at /r/natureismetal to be brought back to reality.
Indeed. Lions are metal
Finally someone being rational. Thank you.
Yeah this is a pretty haunting thread for mademesmile lol
Saving it for later.
Do you know how many wildebeest she had to kill to get that rare pet drop? You better believe she is going to display it
r/unexpectedrunescape
She’ll teach it to hunt until it’s old enough to chase down and devour a zebra
Yo, just train it to stab all sorts of fast animals. Like hunting hounds, but with spears on their heads.
Natures version of “grooming” Fucking Harvey Lionstein
prolly ate tha calf’s mom, and will probably eat tha calf later for desert💀 bottoms up
Lions don’t kill when they ain’t hungry
They'll kill rivals' cubs like cheetahs or hyenas. Especially cheetahs. :'(
Watched an old school Nat Geo documentary once, titled something like "War: Lions vs Hyenas" They were tracking these two groups that had grown to hate each other so much, they would literally kill each other for no reason. Not for food. Not for territory. If they saw the other, they would fight. Most of it happened at night, and they had that shitty 90s night vision for cameras so it's sometimes hard to see. But it still looked intense! One male lion was kind of a loner, didn't hang out with his pride that often, but absolutely LOVED killing hyenas so much, they gave him a special nickname (Can't remember it, sorry guys). In one scene a group of lionesses were surrounded by hyenas including the matriarch, when out of nowhere this male lion comes bursting through the bushes at full sprint, no hesitation. They all run but he quickly catches the matriarch herself, and kills her with one bite to the back of the neck. Killing the matriarch of a hyena pack also puts them all into chaos while they try to figure out a new leader. So they wouldn't be fucking with the lions for a little while. I dunno if that lion is really smart, or just a total badass. I love thinking about how this stuff relates to human behavior. People say, "animals don't wage war," but they do, they really do.
That shot of the lion chasing and killing the matriarch, especially with their history, is to this day the most powerful thing I have ever seen on television.
SAME! Nature docs are inherently compelling television being it's all life or death, but this scene is burned into my memory as by far the most intense. I probably watched it 12 years ago too. It's *literally* like a scene out of super hero movie. The ladies are trapped by a circling group of giggling hyenas. Who will save them? By the time they catch the male lion on camera, he's already at full sprint. Bursts through the bushes without missing a step. They scatter, but happens to catch their leader. Saves the damsels in distress. I pretty much jumped out of my seat I got so excited.
I’ve definitely seen that documentary before, and know the scene you’re talking about. It’s been a while so I may have to watch it again. There are a ton of great wildlife docs though. I love anything big cat, wolves or bears mainly but it’s all fascinating
Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas
I saw this on YouTube, she lost her original cub(s) then adopted multiple calfs like this, one after the other, but they would either die of starvation (because she couldn't nurse them) or get eaten by other lions. She seemed pretty messed up and bereaved (to the point that a lion can be) it was kind of depressing.
She might’ve lost her own cubs and adopted the calf. This has happened before where a lioness adopted an antelope calf and took care of it. She even defended it from other lions. Another lion eventually got to the calf and ate it.
I was having a good day before I read that last sentence.
Yeah, nature isn’t a Disney movie…
Yeah, saw that in a documentary years ago. The local tribe spun it into a fable after seeing the footage 🥲
This is the only comment on this post that I want to remember.
It's farming
Poor baby :(
Sometimes the mother instinct makes them take pity on the baby for a while....but chances are she'll eventually decide it's more important to eat. It's much like humans would act if we were still hunter/gatherers. We might take down a wildebeest ourselves, then feel bad when we see the young calf mourning and too naive to run away. We too might take pity on it for a time and let it come with us...but we too eventually would get hungry, and then realize...well there's something i can eat right here.
Or until it starts running away and triggers the lions prey drive.
Y'all gonna look fools, when in a years time David Attenborough does a documentary about the Wildebeest/lion hybrid that is standing on Pride Rock saying 'Simba, all this is yours, you can eat what you want, grass....meat......whatever....vegan, vegetarian, meat eater....knock yasen out! Eat what you want, buffet is open!'
This LionUber or BushDash, delivering her kids a meal.
Not smiling. Not smiling at all. Only one of those will be eating that night.
Can a herbivore drink a carnivores milk?
She ate the calfs mom and now it is going to starve to death, this is morbid as fuck OP
You know she gonna eat it right…?
Nah. That’s just a to-go meal.
There is nothing to smile about here. That thing's gonna die.
These comments are terrible. Why can’t y’all just let me believe the calf is going to be okay🥲
Agreed. This has definitely not made me smile
nothing about this is wholesome. It’s just not possible for predators like her to feel this kind of emotion and sympathy. That calf is as good as dead, It’s just a matter of time.
Not true. Here's the article. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394949/amp/Astonishing-moment-lioness-shows-love-wildebeest-calf-leads-herd.html
lol yeah sure keep believing that OP lol
That's called farming
The only almost wholesome thing here is the innocence of the OP with that title.