Lion Predation

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(01-27-2019, 12:23 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Shadow :

About #590:

You told: "Well it doesn´t look like to be too easy, many times lions give up too. But when finding a good spot to bite with full force... maybe some individuals learn the trick and some don´t... "

Of course they find a good spot to bite with full force... So do the tigers. All the animals have the same reflex, the same inclination. And perhaps too, they don't want really to eat a tortoise, so they give up, they don't insist. We cannot know what happens in the animals' mind, can we ?

What annoys me is to see somebody that we recognize as being an "authority" about that matter, John Varty, telling anything just in order to glorify his famous tigers and discredit the lions, because he knows perfectly well that his fakes will be spreaded all over the world. And millions naive persons are goig to believe sincerely these craps.

Not all the way we can´t know what happen in animals mind. But to some point then again I think, that we can. For me it is quite easy to see what my dog is "thinking" often :) Not all the way, but I for sure notice some things and can predict how it behaves in many situations

I just looked some videos where lions tried to eat turtoises and it looked like, that trying here , trying there with no clue how to do it. Still some then cracks that shell and do it. Pity that no more videos to see if some individual(s) have learned how to do it without rolling turtle to different positions and trying and trying... :) But from what I saw, I can´t imagine that lions would make leopard tortoise extinct species even though time to time some are eaten :)

And I agree, some authors, especially those who aren´t biologists spread many times inaccurate information and mix their opinions and admiration to reality. I am quite cautious to make too big conclusion when reading books, where there is too much praising for some animal. It is also true, that many people have no source criticism, especially if they like what they read a lot. I have said this before, but I have quite simple point of view what comes to for instance lions and tigers. If one can do something, then I think, that so can another too. They are so similar what comes to physique overall. Some differences, but more in common than there is separating them. In some marginal things there are slight differences, but I see those things quite insignificant. Some individuals can be very impressive, but overall picture for me is what I said. Some people see it in different way, free world (or should be at least) :) Reply