Desert Lions

[Spalea]

Jens Cullmann: " ‘Nature imbalance!?’ ... Looking carefully at these images we could say that nature can be very cruel indeed... A lioness just worked her ass off hunting a 300 kg pregnant gemsbok to feed her pride. The planning, coordination and energy that takes to hunt a gemsbok this large is unbelievable. Just imagine you had to tackle down a sumo wrestler on the run, then choke him and drag him home for supper…or something like that. As a lioness in the wild, you are programmed to know only your responsibilities: bring home a big fat gemsbok, or wildebeest, pregnant preferably, so the pride can have baby-gemsbok or baby wildebeest for dinner too; reproduce and look after your lion cubs, until they are old enough to look after themselves. That is pretty much it...ok…also, have 8 second sex sessions with your partner sometimes, so you can have more lion cubs to care for….not a very thrilling life if you ask me. Meanwhile, as a male lion, you are programmed to get just about anything you could wish for in the wild, using only your physical strength. That includes: food, many female partners (or as many as you can satisfy with 8 second sex), cubs to continue your lineage, 20 hour naps every day, great hair, and a fantastic reputation as ‘the king’. It seems nature missed something in the repartition of privileges for the sexes here. In this sequence, a young lion struggles to get a share of the gemsbok his mother just hunt, but which the male is taking for himself only, to enjoy behind a bush…Calling Lion Social Services please. Thanks to Iliana @writeitsmart for her creative written content making awareness fun. "

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