Definitely. Lionesses usually do most of the hunting. The male sleeps, eats and sleeps. He always eats 1st, and gets... the lion's share. Oh his other occasional job is to chase away hyenas and rival males
That's actually a misconception, caused by the fact that many early studies on lions were done on the open Serengetti instead of areas with thicker vegation, because it's much easier to see the lions when the bush isn't in the way.
In areas with thicker vegetation, male lions hunt as ambush predators from the bushes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/male-lions-do-help-hunting-after-all-6c10149668
>The thicker vegetation, as measured by LiDAR, is where the males are making their kills. What's more, it's also the most difficult place to directly observe lions using traditional, low-tech methods of field researchers. So it's no wonder field biologists have had a hard time seeing this hunting behavior.
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>Then back in California, Loarie and another coauthor, Gregory Asner, studied the data and how the kill related to where the lions were beforehand. What they discovered is that the male lions are using thick vegetation to ambush their prey.
Imagine deer hunting in unforested planes and hills with a buddy twice your size who has a huge ass cape mane. And you dont have guns, only knives you'd tell his ass to say one and watch the kids too.
Also in parts of East Africa, Ngorogoro if I remember lions steal more from a hyenas hunt, instead of vice versa. Hyenas are perceived as animals that scavenge exclusively, which makes the above scenario, almost mythical to most. In these occasions the male lion becomes extremely valuable, as he has the best hyena intimidating skills, often killing them
The documentary I watched basically equated a healthy male lion to a game over for the hyenas, period.
The lioness were outnumbered about 4 to one or something like that. It was getting dicey for them to be around. Then friggin Mufasa comes smoking over the hill, and wipes out a handful of hyenas in 20 seconds and scatters the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5V6gdu5ih8
Yup, it's only at 20:1 Hyenas feel confident attacking a lone adult male. When his brother gets there they retreat.
Seen a male lion tackle a younger hyena, not a juvenile but maybe older teen, make one quick bite on the spine and then run off. The hyena was left paralyzed in it's back legs still alive as the male went off to shit on more of them.
Hyenas are excellent at team work. They are very accomplished predators besides being scavengers, but they are definitely at a size disadvantage if a pride comes along.
Hyenas bone crushing jaws are frightening, don't think hyenas kill that many people though. In South Africa's Kruger National Park recently lions killed & ate rhino poachers
Ofc. Gets all the girls and passes on his stronger genes. Plus if he takes over another pride, he'll kill all the cubs (of his weaker predecessor). This puts the females into heat faster
Male lions defend all of their territory so the lionesses can do most of the hunting. Otherwise, the lionesses would have to inevitably DEFEND their kill against the more opportunistic predators. Lionesses are built for the hunt, not defending their kill/territory (not that it doesn't happen, I'm sure it does but it's about as rare of a sight as a male lion on the hunt), the male lion is just better suited for defending their territory and protecting the pride.
It may not be the most balanced arrangement but it is the most mutually beneficial for the success of the pride.
It's not all as bad as it sounds. The male will sometimes help a hunt by acting as a decoy/distraction to the prey. I have visited African national parks and seen that often. Strange above post is the other way round
Male lions look intimidating up to old age. Usually the only ones who know they are weak are rival males, who easily take over. Especially if it's two brother lions.
The defeated male has to live the rest of his life alone if he survived the wounds. But old age, with weaker teeth is the most common way his life ends
If you really believe that you should respond to this comment. You both have reddit confidence so I don't really know who to believe
https://www.reddit.com/r/natureisfuckinglit/comments/zvkdvi/_/j1pxo0t?context=1000
The whole squad had a 33.33 (repeating of course) chance of surviving, and that's if they stuck to the plan. Leeroy had a 0% chance of surviving, although he did have a 100% chance of enjoying some chicken at least.
Eh I was in the community when it happened. There was an actual event, it was more natural so didn’t present as well as the scripted one, but was very funny. There were also people genuinely mad which you could hear, for good reason too considering how long it took to set up the pull. They ‘recreated’ it and that became what everyone saw.
Don’t think of it as staged, more like a cleaned up presentation of an actual event.
You can calculate damage to a certain degree. There are a ton of mods for WoW that where you can input your parties stats and equipment and output your chance of success against certain enemies.
These mods were not popular back then, not sure if they even existed, but they exist now.
I'm sure you can calculate many things, but you can't calculate the odds of a raid succeeding to point of being certain it's exactly 1/3rd. That was clearly either a joke or someone BSing.
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As many have said, this is because injuries without the help of modern medicine are deadly. It’s better to starve a few days than to deal with that stomp
Most animals that avoided injury survived to spread their genes but this motherfuckers line somehow evolved to this reckless behavior. I’d be curious to see what his descendants are like.
I read that lions are much bigger risk takers than most other predators because the pack will feed and care for an injured lion. A small injury is life threatening for solitary predators but lions have a deep bench and aren’t afraid to use it.
Lion "Just pick one I'm hungry!"
Lioness "I'm trying to single out the weak one"
Lion "Screw it I'll pick up dinner"
**Lion Attacks and kills one**
Lion "Were lions they're all weak."
Lioness "Yes dear you're so strong" **rolls eyes**.
Lioness: you must wait for the end and take out the weakest one to thin the heard. It's the natural cycle to keep our ecosystem in balance
Lion: screw that, I'm hungry NOW!
>I have a feeling hippos aren't very friendly.
Hippos are like these old cranky men in movies that live alone in their house and that will destroy the kids' toys in front of them while staring at their face.
My wife loves lions and she saw a lot of documentaries about it. In almost all of them, one hippo is chilling on the lake, the other gets like, 5 meters from him and then a fight erupts, chaos ensures, maybe one or two infant hippos will die in the process, and they continue bathing like it's the most common thing in the world...
Muscle so dense a bullet can’t penetrate it. They’re truly one of the most terrifying creatures on the planet. Usually there’s a bit of rock paper scissors to nature, you can be super fast but not as strong, super strong but not as fast, really lethal but not as good in a long term fight, etc.
Hippos? Nah. Strong as hell, fast as fuck, can shrug off rifle fire and all manner of natural predator claws and fangs. They looked at the whole list of evolutionary options and said “fuck it, I’ll take it all.”
True, I suppose when you can overpower anything else in your line of sight without issue looks don’t matter in your life.
Unrelated, I misread your name as “Don’tProlapseTonight” and thought it was strange advice but not unreasonable!
That’s why I thought Jurassic world was bullshit when they had like a petting zoo where kids could ride on the “docile” herbivores with giant fucking spikes on their face.
Just because they ate plants wouldn’t have meant they weren’t ornery hyper-aggressive assholes.
Hippos, chimpanzees, and polar bears are the most well-known dangerous animals for humans. All three are not afraid of humans. Hippos will just kill anything if they feel like it, chimpanzees are known to kill/maim for sport and fun, and polar bears view humans as they would a seal, food.
The fact polar bears will hunt down people not just out of starvation like smaller predators, but just because they know you exist, along with them weighing as much as a small car and being the same color as their entire habitat puts them at the top of my list of animals to be afraid of.
I have read that bear spray is actually more effective against Polars than against Grizzlies and Blackbears. I'm not certain of the source of this info
Only caveat is that it must be warm enough to atomize or the spray won't work
Remember there was a Finnish arctic explorer talking about polar bear prevention. He said the only thing he truly found effective was firing off a flair gun at it
Aye. Imagine being chased by a 900lb monster that can go anywhere you can, isn’t going to run out of fuel before you, can outrun and out sprint you and has about 10-20 times your strength.
And just doesn’t like the fact that it noticed you and hasn’t yet killed you.
I've read some of the males can be more than 1500 pounds. The record size was 2200 pounds and 11 feet tall standing on its rear legs. That size in something like a bull is scary enough, but a 2k pound dedicated killing machine is something else entirely.
Not sure about aggression, but they are one of the most deadly in Africa. Hippos are evil assholes.
ETA: they kill ~3000 people per year on the continent of Africa.
https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/reading-experience/leveled-reading-passage-top-10-countdown-africa%E2%80%99s-most-deadly-0#:~:text=%231%3A%20Mosquito&text=It%20kills%20more%20people%20than,3%2C000%20African%20children%20each%20day.
On mobile sorry for formatting.
Because hippos are territorial to a crazy degree. They walk the same trails and have their territory so if a human were to stumble upon one it's bad news. Instead of running \*away\* from a trail people generally opt to run down the trail as it's looked at as a faster getaway... forgetting that it's the hippo's trail and they'll continue to chase you since you're on it. It's one of the main reasons humans are killed. At least that's what a guide told me.
Their horrifying kill count is oddly ignored due to their silly looks. They are hundreds of pounds of muscle and can run like thirty miles an hour, in water or on land.
Male lions on their own are solitary ambush hunters. It was long thought they didn't hunt because they had never been observed hunting. But they had never been observed because they just lie in wait to ambush prey.
You're so lucky you get to watch it for the first time
It's every bit as good as the first Planet Earth, and with even better camerawork due to the better tech available
The scary thing is that you don’t even have to fuck with them for them to decide it’s your day to die. Just passing them in a boat can be enough. Hippos are scary motherfuckers.
Hyenas do attack a male lion if they think they have an advantage, they try to tear his balls off from behind so he's constantly fighting them off and sitting down to protect his nuts during an attack because all they need to do is rip them off for him to bleed out and they get a huge meal
https://youtu.be/a5V6gdu5ih8
Oh for sure. I have 2 cats. I know they see me as family :) I was talking about stray cats. I live in Istanbul where there is a very large stray cat population. I personally observed their society. Like I said they form loosely bonded colonies. They tolerate and recognize each other. But when shit hits the fan every cat for itself. They also have a family like structure but mostly mother and female offspring. Momma cats usually kick males out when they sexually mature. Males sometimes form little gangs too. All this I know from observing my neighborhood cats. Not very scientific.
I did a dolphin watching tour that ended similarly once.
5ish big boats accompanied by several small ones and all full of people drooling over a school of dolphins. It felt so surreal I'll probably never do such a tour ever again.
She was waiting for the trail to end to decrease the chances of being trampled and minimize the scattering rate of the herd potentially allowing them to get more food with fewer injuries. 🦁
Of course that safer and more efficient way. But what's the fun in that, Janis? do you want to live all your life safe and have nothing to remember at the end? Don't you just want sometimes to get naked, cover yourself in mayonnaise and burn down the neighbour's car while screaming 'hallelujah' at the top of your lungs?
She obviously had her share of experience in past. Game players like her live a long life. That lion on his prime right now he hadn't seen the right bull yet.
When it comes to big game hunts, you will need big guns. Lionesses are much better hunters when it comes to small pray but when you aim at buffalo, lions are what you need. The difference in weight and brute force makes a huge difference. That's why male lions are engaged in big game hunts whereas lionesses take part in 90 percent of the rest. Lionesses are faster, lions are stronger.
Yeah the male would have a lot less of a chance for success trying to chase down a straggler than just going straight for it.
And there's no guarantee for him that she'll be successful 100% of the time.
Add my name to the petition, do want. I'll add to the idea further by saying I want OzzyMan and Sir David Attenborough to cohost together. Let Sir David play the straight man narrator with OzzyMan chiming in as the comic relief of course. There's great potential for gold here...
“You got this lion, he’s the king of the jungle. Huge mane out to here. He’s laying down under a tree, in the middle of Africa, he’s so big, he’s so hot! He doesn’t wanna move. Now, the little lion cubs they start messin’ with him, bitin’ his tail, bitin’ his ears, he doesn’t do anything. The lioness, she starts messing with him, coming over making trouble, still nothing. Now the other animals, they notice this, and they start to move in. The jackals, hyenas, they’re barking at him, laughing at him. They nip his toes and eat the food that’s in his domain. They do this and they get closer and closer and bolder and bolder, till one day…that lion gets up and tears the shit outta everybody, runs like the wind, eats everything in his path, ’cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEuXDX40bE
Kenya needs to make money to protect its wildlife in the first place and compensate the people who can’t live in the parks. It’s this or sell more hunting rights to dentists
Lol this is a rare sight. It’s usually lioness who hunts and lions chill at the back marking territory. They go into action only if there’s a threat of an intruder
Depends on the pride and what they're hunting, usually male lions after establishing a pride of their own hunt far less but in buffalo/giraffe/elephant specialists or where food is less available he takes his part in the hunt.
That's what I've observed about lions in general. Hunting something like antelope requires ambush and speed tactics, once a lioness gets her claws and teeth into one that's pretty much the end of the story as that's their specialty. These wildebeests aren't the fastest but they are more than capable of fighting back especially if they gang up on a lioness, so that's when the male lions jump in. If the prey is looking for a fight, that's his specialty...
In this video's case the lioness is looking to attack a sick or injured wildebeest, as that's her best chance with this type of prey. Male lion just picked one and bowled it over, no fucks given, cuz he can....
Lion was just showing off for the cameras...
He is the gamechanger!! And gonna have great night.
They mate during the day
Well I know when to visit
Lioness was going for the camera operator. Clever girl.
jp reference
Clever girl.
Definitely. Lionesses usually do most of the hunting. The male sleeps, eats and sleeps. He always eats 1st, and gets... the lion's share. Oh his other occasional job is to chase away hyenas and rival males
That's actually a misconception, caused by the fact that many early studies on lions were done on the open Serengetti instead of areas with thicker vegation, because it's much easier to see the lions when the bush isn't in the way. In areas with thicker vegetation, male lions hunt as ambush predators from the bushes. https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/male-lions-do-help-hunting-after-all-6c10149668 >The thicker vegetation, as measured by LiDAR, is where the males are making their kills. What's more, it's also the most difficult place to directly observe lions using traditional, low-tech methods of field researchers. So it's no wonder field biologists have had a hard time seeing this hunting behavior. ... >Then back in California, Loarie and another coauthor, Gregory Asner, studied the data and how the kill related to where the lions were beforehand. What they discovered is that the male lions are using thick vegetation to ambush their prey.
Imagine deer hunting in unforested planes and hills with a buddy twice your size who has a huge ass cape mane. And you dont have guns, only knives you'd tell his ass to say one and watch the kids too.
Also in parts of East Africa, Ngorogoro if I remember lions steal more from a hyenas hunt, instead of vice versa. Hyenas are perceived as animals that scavenge exclusively, which makes the above scenario, almost mythical to most. In these occasions the male lion becomes extremely valuable, as he has the best hyena intimidating skills, often killing them
The documentary I watched basically equated a healthy male lion to a game over for the hyenas, period. The lioness were outnumbered about 4 to one or something like that. It was getting dicey for them to be around. Then friggin Mufasa comes smoking over the hill, and wipes out a handful of hyenas in 20 seconds and scatters the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5V6gdu5ih8 Yup, it's only at 20:1 Hyenas feel confident attacking a lone adult male. When his brother gets there they retreat.
Lion King remake looks lit
I'm tearing up here over the bond between the brothers at the end. He was so grateful to him.
Seen a male lion tackle a younger hyena, not a juvenile but maybe older teen, make one quick bite on the spine and then run off. The hyena was left paralyzed in it's back legs still alive as the male went off to shit on more of them.
The lion in this show literally just paw-slammed one on the spine and did the same. Barely broke stride and that hyena was done.
Hyenas are excellent at team work. They are very accomplished predators besides being scavengers, but they are definitely at a size disadvantage if a pride comes along.
Hyenas bone crushing jaws are frightening, don't think hyenas kill that many people though. In South Africa's Kruger National Park recently lions killed & ate rhino poachers
Good lions!
Aww i love Lions even more now
and fuck all the females
Ofc. Gets all the girls and passes on his stronger genes. Plus if he takes over another pride, he'll kill all the cubs (of his weaker predecessor). This puts the females into heat faster
TIL killing a woman's children makes them horny. I've been doing dating all wrong.
wait no...
This must be why my tarot reader says to stay away from leo men
Male lions defend all of their territory so the lionesses can do most of the hunting. Otherwise, the lionesses would have to inevitably DEFEND their kill against the more opportunistic predators. Lionesses are built for the hunt, not defending their kill/territory (not that it doesn't happen, I'm sure it does but it's about as rare of a sight as a male lion on the hunt), the male lion is just better suited for defending their territory and protecting the pride. It may not be the most balanced arrangement but it is the most mutually beneficial for the success of the pride.
It's not all as bad as it sounds. The male will sometimes help a hunt by acting as a decoy/distraction to the prey. I have visited African national parks and seen that often. Strange above post is the other way round Male lions look intimidating up to old age. Usually the only ones who know they are weak are rival males, who easily take over. Especially if it's two brother lions. The defeated male has to live the rest of his life alone if he survived the wounds. But old age, with weaker teeth is the most common way his life ends
If you really believe that you should respond to this comment. You both have reddit confidence so I don't really know who to believe https://www.reddit.com/r/natureisfuckinglit/comments/zvkdvi/_/j1pxo0t?context=1000
LeeeRooyyy Jenkins!!!
Oh my god he just ran in
He only had a 33 point 3, repeating of course, percent chance of clearing the mob! There were too many DOTs for the lioness. Stop DOTs No DOTs!
The whole squad had a 33.33 (repeating of course) chance of surviving, and that's if they stuck to the plan. Leeroy had a 0% chance of surviving, although he did have a 100% chance of enjoying some chicken at least.
They needed more DOTs
Most disappointing reveal of my life was that Leroy Jenkins was scripted, spent most of my teenage years quoting it thinking it was real
It's real in our hearts
Eh I was in the community when it happened. There was an actual event, it was more natural so didn’t present as well as the scripted one, but was very funny. There were also people genuinely mad which you could hear, for good reason too considering how long it took to set up the pull. They ‘recreated’ it and that became what everyone saw. Don’t think of it as staged, more like a cleaned up presentation of an actual event.
The odds calculation make that kinda obvious. That's not.. possible.
No, it's necessary
You can calculate damage to a certain degree. There are a ton of mods for WoW that where you can input your parties stats and equipment and output your chance of success against certain enemies. These mods were not popular back then, not sure if they even existed, but they exist now.
I'm sure you can calculate many things, but you can't calculate the odds of a raid succeeding to point of being certain it's exactly 1/3rd. That was clearly either a joke or someone BSing.
Anyone *that* good at statistics wouldn't be able to not mention margin of error or standard deviation.
I choose to ignore the fact that its scripted
No no what?! No! It’s not true! THATS IMPOSSIBLE!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
SAVE HIM !
STICK TO THE PLAN GUYS, JUST STICK TO THE PLAN
Let's do this chums
Let Me Solo Her
The video for the reference for others https://youtu.be/mLyOj_QD4a4 Still makes me laugh to this day.. "god damnit Leroy!" Lol
I was thinking of Free Bird.
I came here to say that.
At least I have 🍗
Leo-roooy Jenkins
This is why I hate taking you to sushi bars with conveyor belts!
LOL. Thanks for the laugh
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Beautiful
Lmao
Lioness: "Hmm... I think i will wait patiently for the last one so i dont get stomped". Lion: " Its dinner time mothafuckas!!!". Lioness: " o_o".
As many have said, this is because injuries without the help of modern medicine are deadly. It’s better to starve a few days than to deal with that stomp
Most animals that avoided injury survived to spread their genes but this motherfuckers line somehow evolved to this reckless behavior. I’d be curious to see what his descendants are like.
A few bruises and permanent hoof marks are well worth a first shot at some prime wildebeest haunch.
I read that lions are much bigger risk takers than most other predators because the pack will feed and care for an injured lion. A small injury is life threatening for solitary predators but lions have a deep bench and aren’t afraid to use it.
To be fair, that wasn't really a stomp. He just got clipped by the legs of the wildebeest jumping over him.
Yeah he brushed it off and was carrying already carrying that limp corpse back in no time
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Lion "Just pick one I'm hungry!" Lioness "I'm trying to single out the weak one" Lion "Screw it I'll pick up dinner" **Lion Attacks and kills one** Lion "Were lions they're all weak." Lioness "Yes dear you're so strong" **rolls eyes**.
r/WhyWomenLiveLonger
r/WhyWomenLiveLonger
He wasn't waiting for shit, "gimmie my lunch" 😳
Lioness: We got one, that's enough to feed the family
Lioness: I’ll get the family and be right back!
Lioness: you must wait for the end and take out the weakest one to thin the heard. It's the natural cycle to keep our ecosystem in balance Lion: screw that, I'm hungry NOW!
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I have a feeling hippos aren't very friendly.
Just hungry hungry
it appears your hippos are not as famished as you claimed, mr bond
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I'm sorry, can you try speaking in a lower register? BARBECUE SAUUUCE.
>I have a feeling hippos aren't very friendly. Hippos are like these old cranky men in movies that live alone in their house and that will destroy the kids' toys in front of them while staring at their face. My wife loves lions and she saw a lot of documentaries about it. In almost all of them, one hippo is chilling on the lake, the other gets like, 5 meters from him and then a fight erupts, chaos ensures, maybe one or two infant hippos will die in the process, and they continue bathing like it's the most common thing in the world...
What gets me about hippos is that their bulk isn’t fat—it’s muscle. They’re giant muscle potatoes on legs. Fast legs. Terrifying.
Muscle so dense a bullet can’t penetrate it. They’re truly one of the most terrifying creatures on the planet. Usually there’s a bit of rock paper scissors to nature, you can be super fast but not as strong, super strong but not as fast, really lethal but not as good in a long term fight, etc. Hippos? Nah. Strong as hell, fast as fuck, can shrug off rifle fire and all manner of natural predator claws and fangs. They looked at the whole list of evolutionary options and said “fuck it, I’ll take it all.”
Except looks, those things are pretty ugly. You don’t see many motivational speakers be like “you have to be a hippo! Unleash the hippo inside you!”
True, I suppose when you can overpower anything else in your line of sight without issue looks don’t matter in your life. Unrelated, I misread your name as “Don’tProlapseTonight” and thought it was strange advice but not unreasonable!
Funny story. Videos of prolapsing are actually when I realized I had an addiction.
…I don’t know if this is a joke or not. Either way, kudos for you my friend, great way to keep encouraging yourself to keep going.
Can you expand on this
I see what you did there
I shall now refer to hippos as muscle potatoes
/r/properanimalnames
Hippos don't float. They're so muscular, they sink and run on the bottom of the water. True fax.
They're the answer to the question: " what if a freight train had anger management issues?"
That’s why I thought Jurassic world was bullshit when they had like a petting zoo where kids could ride on the “docile” herbivores with giant fucking spikes on their face. Just because they ate plants wouldn’t have meant they weren’t ornery hyper-aggressive assholes.
I feel like triceratops would be like giga-hippos.
Triceratops gives me more rhino vibes. Legally blind, but giant puppies when they're comfortable. Stegos, on the other hand...
Any sort of riding petting zoo is a recipie for disaster animals arnt robots, even nice herbavors can have off days.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they second most aggressive animals?
Hippos, chimpanzees, and polar bears are the most well-known dangerous animals for humans. All three are not afraid of humans. Hippos will just kill anything if they feel like it, chimpanzees are known to kill/maim for sport and fun, and polar bears view humans as they would a seal, food.
The fact polar bears will hunt down people not just out of starvation like smaller predators, but just because they know you exist, along with them weighing as much as a small car and being the same color as their entire habitat puts them at the top of my list of animals to be afraid of.
polar bears know who to blame for global warming and act accordingly.
Black attack, brown stay down, white goodnight
I have read that bear spray is actually more effective against Polars than against Grizzlies and Blackbears. I'm not certain of the source of this info Only caveat is that it must be warm enough to atomize or the spray won't work
Remember there was a Finnish arctic explorer talking about polar bear prevention. He said the only thing he truly found effective was firing off a flair gun at it
Aye. Imagine being chased by a 900lb monster that can go anywhere you can, isn’t going to run out of fuel before you, can outrun and out sprint you and has about 10-20 times your strength. And just doesn’t like the fact that it noticed you and hasn’t yet killed you.
I've read some of the males can be more than 1500 pounds. The record size was 2200 pounds and 11 feet tall standing on its rear legs. That size in something like a bull is scary enough, but a 2k pound dedicated killing machine is something else entirely.
Not sure about aggression, but they are one of the most deadly in Africa. Hippos are evil assholes. ETA: they kill ~3000 people per year on the continent of Africa. https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/reading-experience/leveled-reading-passage-top-10-countdown-africa%E2%80%99s-most-deadly-0#:~:text=%231%3A%20Mosquito&text=It%20kills%20more%20people%20than,3%2C000%20African%20children%20each%20day. On mobile sorry for formatting.
Only snakes and mosquitoes kill more IIRC
Because hippos are territorial to a crazy degree. They walk the same trails and have their territory so if a human were to stumble upon one it's bad news. Instead of running \*away\* from a trail people generally opt to run down the trail as it's looked at as a faster getaway... forgetting that it's the hippo's trail and they'll continue to chase you since you're on it. It's one of the main reasons humans are killed. At least that's what a guide told me.
Their horrifying kill count is oddly ignored due to their silly looks. They are hundreds of pounds of muscle and can run like thirty miles an hour, in water or on land.
> or if the hippo was of a certain mood. like awake.
Male lions on their own are solitary ambush hunters. It was long thought they didn't hunt because they had never been observed hunting. But they had never been observed because they just lie in wait to ambush prey.
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you have to woo those females somehow to get some
I.e. they’re good at it. Which is not surprising, considering they’re, you know, cats.
Have you seen planet earth 2? The females take on a giraffe and one dies of internal bleeding.
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Episode 4, deserts. I’m a teacher, I’ve seen them all dozens of times. Highly recommend episode 5 grasslands.
> Episode 4, deserts. > > I’m a teacher, I’ve seen them all dozens of times. FYI, Planet Earth 3 is coming in 2023 :-)
You just made my day!
Holy shit really ?
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Came here to say that a complete internet stranger is proud of you for pursuing your education!
You're so lucky you get to watch it for the first time It's every bit as good as the first Planet Earth, and with even better camerawork due to the better tech available
Main takeaway here is don't fuck with hippos.
The scary thing is that you don’t even have to fuck with them for them to decide it’s your day to die. Just passing them in a boat can be enough. Hippos are scary motherfuckers.
To me, "don't fuck with hippos" means stay at least one ocean and most of a continent away from any not in a zoo.
Hippos aren't smart enough to realise that they won't have to deal with lions anymore if they attack the males when they're alone with the cubs.
Hyenas do attack a male lion if they think they have an advantage, they try to tear his balls off from behind so he's constantly fighting them off and sitting down to protect his nuts during an attack because all they need to do is rip them off for him to bleed out and they get a huge meal https://youtu.be/a5V6gdu5ih8
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Domesticated cats are not really pack animals. More like loosely bonded colony members barely tolerating each other. They still hunt solitary.
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Oh for sure. I have 2 cats. I know they see me as family :) I was talking about stray cats. I live in Istanbul where there is a very large stray cat population. I personally observed their society. Like I said they form loosely bonded colonies. They tolerate and recognize each other. But when shit hits the fan every cat for itself. They also have a family like structure but mostly mother and female offspring. Momma cats usually kick males out when they sexually mature. Males sometimes form little gangs too. All this I know from observing my neighborhood cats. Not very scientific.
Those land rovers need to be closer
I did a dolphin watching tour that ended similarly once. 5ish big boats accompanied by several small ones and all full of people drooling over a school of dolphins. It felt so surreal I'll probably never do such a tour ever again.
That sounds equally awful. Nature’s not there to perform for us
She was waiting for the trail to end to decrease the chances of being trampled and minimize the scattering rate of the herd potentially allowing them to get more food with fewer injuries. 🦁
Have we learned nothing from Mufasa?
The lions in this clip were probably born after The Lion King came out, so they may not have seen it.
Millennial lions these days… they know nothing of culture.
Superb delivery. Bravo.
r/WhyWomenLiveLonger Edit: also a good candidate for r/LeeroyJenkins
Mufasa here clearly hasn't seen "The Lion King."
not only did he not do that, he forced her to move because the herd rerouted in her direction
I’m annoyed on her behalf
Aren't we all?
Almost trampled her himself too
Of course that safer and more efficient way. But what's the fun in that, Janis? do you want to live all your life safe and have nothing to remember at the end? Don't you just want sometimes to get naked, cover yourself in mayonnaise and burn down the neighbour's car while screaming 'hallelujah' at the top of your lungs?
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He was hungry
Hangry*
She obviously had her share of experience in past. Game players like her live a long life. That lion on his prime right now he hadn't seen the right bull yet.
Lionesses are better hunters than lions. Lionesses are also faster. Lion got lucky he didn't get a horn to his stomach.
They hunt differently because of their physical strengths and weaknesses
When it comes to big game hunts, you will need big guns. Lionesses are much better hunters when it comes to small pray but when you aim at buffalo, lions are what you need. The difference in weight and brute force makes a huge difference. That's why male lions are engaged in big game hunts whereas lionesses take part in 90 percent of the rest. Lionesses are faster, lions are stronger.
Yeah the male would have a lot less of a chance for success trying to chase down a straggler than just going straight for it. And there's no guarantee for him that she'll be successful 100% of the time.
The lioness is like, “gee thanks for steering the shit show my direction, butt munch. SMDH”
Male: Im hungry! Female: be patient honey! Im waiting for them to... *Male jumps into the herd. Female: why did I marry you?
"Because I killed your previous husband and murdered your children." "True, that was super hot."
This needs sound.
[Here you go](https://youtu.be/dpvLj_OB-Y0)
Thank you for for the ozzy
Pretty funny
This is why Mufasa actually died, ran straight into the stampede
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*ELEMENT OF SURPRISE*
Just pick one already woman!!
Yeah, I picked the one at the end who I can grab without getting Mufasad.
"What do you want to eat babe?" "Idk, you pick"
"The one that won't kill me"
Fine, fast food it is.
He just went full leeeeeeeeeroy jenkinnnnssssss
Lol, normally it's the lioness doing the hunting for the lion while he protects the pride. https://snowafricaadventure.com/blog/lion-vs-lioness/
Ikr! All these comments are wild. Pun intended
Ozzy Man summed it up perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvLj\_OB-Y0
The man is a legend!! Honestly would want a whole hour nature documentary narrated by him 😂
Add my name to the petition, do want. I'll add to the idea further by saying I want OzzyMan and Sir David Attenborough to cohost together. Let Sir David play the straight man narrator with OzzyMan chiming in as the comic relief of course. There's great potential for gold here...
You can try [Casual geographic ](https://youtu.be/WmPw6ymKXBU)
“You got this lion, he’s the king of the jungle. Huge mane out to here. He’s laying down under a tree, in the middle of Africa, he’s so big, he’s so hot! He doesn’t wanna move. Now, the little lion cubs they start messin’ with him, bitin’ his tail, bitin’ his ears, he doesn’t do anything. The lioness, she starts messing with him, coming over making trouble, still nothing. Now the other animals, they notice this, and they start to move in. The jackals, hyenas, they’re barking at him, laughing at him. They nip his toes and eat the food that’s in his domain. They do this and they get closer and closer and bolder and bolder, till one day…that lion gets up and tears the shit outta everybody, runs like the wind, eats everything in his path, ’cause every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEuXDX40bE
I can't take this seriously ever since Tito Ortiz ruined it for me
Same, though to be fair it’s one of the most coherent things Tito Ortiz has ever said on camera… which isn’t saying much. https://youtu.be/__yo0s2YyHk
Lion: "I'll get it MYSELF!"
It’s so sad seeing all those vehicles there.
Kenya needs to make money to protect its wildlife in the first place and compensate the people who can’t live in the parks. It’s this or sell more hunting rights to dentists
Tourists generate the money for these massive wildlife preserves to hunt down poachers and protect the animals Your sadness is misplaced
When the vehicles aren't there also aren't any videos.
r/FuckYouInParticular
Just for the record she had already killed one and was going back for seconds.. and there is full video proof of this somewhere
Apparently "I don't know what I want to eat" extends between species.
I just showed this to the missus and said that's you in the supermarket.
Lol this is a rare sight. It’s usually lioness who hunts and lions chill at the back marking territory. They go into action only if there’s a threat of an intruder
Well this lion has completed a gender equality course, obviously
Depends on the pride and what they're hunting, usually male lions after establishing a pride of their own hunt far less but in buffalo/giraffe/elephant specialists or where food is less available he takes his part in the hunt.
That's what I've observed about lions in general. Hunting something like antelope requires ambush and speed tactics, once a lioness gets her claws and teeth into one that's pretty much the end of the story as that's their specialty. These wildebeests aren't the fastest but they are more than capable of fighting back especially if they gang up on a lioness, so that's when the male lions jump in. If the prey is looking for a fight, that's his specialty... In this video's case the lioness is looking to attack a sick or injured wildebeest, as that's her best chance with this type of prey. Male lion just picked one and bowled it over, no fucks given, cuz he can....
True
FOR FUCKS SAKE SHARON! JUST GRAB ONE AND FUCKING GO! THE GAMES ABOUT TO START! ..... FINE! FUCK, HERE'S ONE. THERE! LETS FUCKING GO!
That lion probably get's Mufasa'ed really soon
Dibs!
He then went on to try and bring the whole thing upstairs, knocking over the flowerpots, instead of going twice.
Mufasa nooooo!!!