There is a world somewhere between reality and fiction. Although ignored by many, it is very real and so are those living in it. This forum is about the natural world. Here, wild animals will be heard and respected. The forum offers a glimpse into an unknown world as well as a room with a view on the present and the future. Anyone able to speak on behalf of those living in the emerald forest and the deep blue sea is invited to join.
To be anthropomorphic (towards lions and any animals) means that you lend, you attribute some human features and characters to the lion. Animals are not aware of good and evil. A lion which kill a zebra isn't fiercer than this zebra eating "mercilessly" some grass. The lion makes what his instinct pushes him to do, no more no less. But a non-scientist man seeing him to kill a prey would say that he is a cruel animal.
The human psychology isn't at all the animal psychology. You cannot analyse the animals' behaviour with the same terms of the men' psychology without, at least, redefining these terms.
But OK, when you see some lions or any predators hunting, you can of course deduce some form of intelligence because hunting a prey is much more difficult than grazing some grass.
how do you explain this?
Lions have human characteristics in their behavior. First they want to conquer territories and they defend their land with their lives, this is a very human behavior too. Second Lions want their bloodline to be dominant in the future and they want to destroy other Lions in order to achieve this. Humans have done economic, religious, national wars in order their culture to prevail others'. It is very similar.
(12-31-2015, 05:40 PM)brotherbear Wrote: I have myself said more than once that the lion is at war with the spotted hyena. This does not mean that these predators sit around discussing battle plans. But they certainly appear to greatly despise each other. Perhaps we should not get too involved in word usage and not put every word under a microscope.
Hyenas kill lion cubs and that's one more reason Hyenas are Lions' worst enemy
There've been recorded cases of lions of both sexes killing hyena and AFD cubs, AFDs killing both lion and hyena cubs, and even various herbivores killing all 3 carnivores' cubs. One day a lion may fight off a hyena, another day an AFD. It all depends. Big thing is, lions are too busy caring if they are "king of the jungle" or "courageous" and all that; they're just trying to do the job a usual cat does, become a hyperpredator. The ideas you showed can be applied to any other animal as well. Tigers want their bloodline to be dominant as well and they want to destroy other Tigers in order to achieve this as well. Religion, nationalism, and economy are human ideas, territoriality and rivalry of similar beings (cats to cats, and humans to humans) and dominance is a universal achievement of the male gender of any animal.
And for the video you showed, tigers/bears/lions/any animal used to human interaction can become friendly towards humans as well...
