Lion Predation

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(03-16-2016, 05:45 AM)stoja9 Wrote: Every time I see a video like this I think back to all the books and tv programs there were when I was a kid (1980's) and they all said the same thing - male lions were basically lazy bums who were only there for fighting and mating and that lionesses did 95% of the hunting. They always painted a picture that male lions would basically starve to death without lionesses hunting for them.

Yes, it is completely crazy, absurd... When I was a child, I always heard that males lions did nothing but sleep and mate. After in the meedle of the seventy, thanks to the big zoologist searcher Schaller, I learnt that males lions were very important because they keep their territory safe against stranger male lions in order the lionness could breed their cubs and hunt. But of course, the males because of their mane and bigger size were unable to hunt efficiently. Now, thank to internet we can see that male lions hunt very often and very efficiently bigger preys than the lionesses do.

But, IMO, a such imbalance between what we said and reality was too big to be true. I would believe that we wanted to discredit the lion by a completely anthropomorphic description, male lions being macho and lazy and inheriting some very human flaws. Reply