Lion Predation

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(02-13-2020, 09:30 PM)TigerJaguar Wrote: An old eye witness account of a lion which fought and killed a rhino even though he died first the rhino succumbed to the injuries
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT18981122.2.46

This story is really something. A good example why I don´t take seriously most of these "eye witness accounts" from past, especially when about 100 years old or older. In those times most people saw for instance rhinos and lions in some drawings maybe... and obviously some people took advantage of it while writing amazing stories. This is again typical. Two animals fighting and... surprise surprise, both die in the end, what a dramatic story. There is same kind of nonsense story about lion and gorilla fighting, like they would be some gladiators on arena, and in the end both "warriors" die.... 

This story, lion attacking a rhino, jumping on it and holding grip with one paw while beating with another like some mma fighter. And we have seen this in reality, in countless video clips how many times? Yeah, never, 0 times and never will.

Just like that gorilla story, gorilla calling a lion to fight without no reason whatsoever, something what we would see in reality, even if they would live in same areas, which they don´t... never.

These old stories give often a good laugh, but if some young people read these stories my advice is: Don´t believe everything you read.

There is at least one as imaginary story of a lion and a tiger fighting, one reporter wrote it and 4-6 old newspapers published it, but same story in in all of these newspapers copied from original or maybe that reporter sent it to several newspapers or something like that. So someone could say, multiple sources confirms. My opinion is, same shit in different packages When reading these stories, people should always think a moment if they have seen anything even remotely similar in reality. Nowadays luckily we have many clips to compare. Reply